Paola Müller

The RFNS celebrates the seventh centenary of Dante’s death with a monographic issue dedicated to examining philosophical and theological thought in the Poet’s works, focusing on the strong revival of the study of these themes in Dante’s writings. Having abandoned ideological prejudice thanks to a greater openness to the sense of the history’s course and set aside the paternalistic myth of nineteenth century Danteanism, there has been a change in the choice of themes that have become canonical in Dante’s exegesis...

The studies on Dante’s thought published by the «Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica» reflect the line adopted by the Journal, which has followed a path that from the recovery of the Aristotelian- Thomistic metaphysical system has come to the fruitful encounter with the different instances emerging from time to time from contemporary philosophy. From the pioneering studies of Bruno Nardi to the all-out defense of Dante’s Thomism supported by Cordovani and Busnelli, passing through the intellectual honesty of Vanni Rovighi and the philological competence of Grabmann, the Rivista takes a less ideological path and is more open to a constructive confrontation with the various philosophical currents...

In the introduction to Bonaventura’s section, curators wanted to highlight the 8th centenary of his birth as a chance for further philosophical and theological bonaventurian studies, with the main focus on last years’ research, especially the one brought out by Università Cattolica...

In the Middle Ages, the transmission and the reception of Aristotle’s Categories, together with Porphyrius’s Isagoge, a work that had driven to a predominantly logical-linguistic approach, have led to a both extentional and intensional interpretation about categories...