The Boethian definition of the notion of person between immanence and transcendence
The current crisis of the notion of the person is more broadly a crisis of the foundation of human knowledge, where, having renounced a metaphysics capable of accounting for the transcendental root within which the notion of the person finds its origin, it is relegated solely to the horizontal realm...
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I28-R260-article-148102025-06-07T01:44:04Z The Boethian definition of the notion of person between immanence and transcendence La definición boeciana del concepto de persona, entre inmanencia y trascendencia La definizione boeziana del concetto di persona tra immanenza e trascendenza Magnano, Fiorella Magnano, Fiorella Magnano, Fiorella Persona Boecio Porfirio Individuación Sustancia Persona Boezio Porfirio Individuazione Sostanza Person Boethius Porphyry Individuation Substance The current crisis of the notion of the person is more broadly a crisis of the foundation of human knowledge, where, having renounced a metaphysics capable of accounting for the transcendental root within which the notion of the person finds its origin, it is relegated solely to the horizontal realm of immanence that oscillates between empty abstract and universal definitions on one hand and equally sterile exaltations of narcissistic and self-referential individuality on the other. The aim of this study is to recover the philosophical root of Boethius’s definition of the person, as an individual substance of rational nature, bringing to the fore the logical and metaphysical structure of the transcendent being, as defined by the Neoplatonist Porphyry, within which it is embedded. In the Porphyrian paradigm of the descent of the One-Being into the many, individuation does not occur through matter, but rather at the formal and intelligible level, thereby implying for individual substances the possibility of their ascent, where rational nature plays the fundamental role of restarting, through a movement of conversion, the process of recomposing the many into the One. Boethius shares this framework but places the notion of the person within a Christian vision of existence, thus definitively delivering it to Latin Western thought. L’attuale crisi della nozione di persona è più in generale crisi del fondamento della conoscenza umana, lì dove avendo rinunciato a una metafisica in grado di rendere conto della radice trascendentale entro cui la nozione di persona trova la sua scaturigine, essa viene relegata unicamente nell’ambito orizzontale di un immanenza che oscilla tra vuote definizioni astratte e universali da un lato e altrettante esaltazioni sterili di invidualità narcisistiche e autoreferenziali dall’altro. Scopo di questo studio è recuperare la radice filosofica della definizione boeziana di persona, quale sostanza individua di natura razionale, lasciando emergere la struttura logica e metafisica dell’essere trascendente, propria del neoplatonico Porfirio, entro cui è incastonata. Nel paradigma porfiriano della discesa dell’Uno-Essere nei molti, l’individuazione non avviene infatti per il tramite della materia quanto piuttosto al livello formale e intellegibile, implicando per ciò stesso per le sostanze individue la possibilità della loro risalita, lì dove la natura razionale gioca il ruolo fondamentale di riavviare, attraverso un movimento di conversione, il processo di ricomposizione dal molteplice all’Uno. Boezio condivide questo impianto ma inscrive la nozione di persona all’interno di una visione cristiana dell’esistenza e in questa forma la consegna definitivamente all’Occidente latino. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2025-04-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/petm/article/view/14810 10.34096/petm.v46.n1.14810 Patristica et Mediævalia; Vol. 46 Núm. 1 (2025); 5-20 2683-9636 spa https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/petm/article/view/14810/14723 |
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The current crisis of the notion of the person is more broadly a crisis of the foundation of human knowledge, where, having renounced a metaphysics capable of accounting for the transcendental root within which the notion of the person finds its origin, it is relegated solely to the horizontal realm of immanence that oscillates between empty abstract and universal definitions on one hand and equally sterile exaltations of narcissistic and self-referential individuality on the other. The aim of this study is to recover the philosophical root of Boethius’s definition of the person, as an individual substance of rational nature, bringing to the fore the logical and metaphysical structure of the transcendent being, as defined by the Neoplatonist Porphyry, within which it is embedded. In the Porphyrian paradigm of the descent of the One-Being into the many, individuation does not occur through matter, but rather at the formal and intelligible level, thereby implying for individual substances the possibility of their ascent, where rational nature plays the fundamental role of restarting, through a movement of conversion, the process of recomposing the many into the One. Boethius shares this framework but places the notion of the person within a Christian vision of existence, thus definitively delivering it to Latin Western thought.
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