Gian Pietro Soliani

This article aims to study the Augustinian theme of duplex delectatio in relation to Blaise Pascal’s Writings on Grace and their Jansenist and scholastic background. As is well known, Pascal’s doctrine of victorious delight is directly indebted to the Jansenius’ Augustinus. Furthermore, Pascal seems to embrace from Jansenius the idea that in a state of sin, human desire is oriented only towards pleasurable good and not towards good as such...

The aim of this article is to study the Bonaventure’s theory of illumination, limited to the natural cognition, and its relation with aristotelian élenchos. The metaphorical language used to described human soul as an image of God can be philosophically explained if we consider what the human soul and the Word of God have in common...