Luigi Pareyson Quotes on God
Luigi Pareyson was an Italian philosopher of existence, hermeneutics, and aesthetics and the principal architect of Italian personalism in the second half of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Luigi Pareyson on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Luigi Pareyson:
“Tragic ontology grasps that being itself is given as gift.”
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“God wants to exist and wants to be what he is, which means that he is free not only with regard to being in general, but above all with regard to his own being, in short, he is not bound either to his own existence or to his own essence.”
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“God himself, as absolute freedom and original will, contains, indeed is, the answer to the “fundamental question” [What is his name? (Ex. 3:13)], but he does not state it in explicit terms: he merely says “I am who I am, I am who I want to be”, which is a definitive statement. There is nothing more to say: it is an absolute act of will and freedom, by which God makes himself and declares himself master of his own being and of being in general.”
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“God is master of his own essence, because in him act and essence, essence and will are one and the same.”
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“God is being, goodness, truth, or the positive in general, but insofar as it is willed and chosen, victory over possible nothingness.”
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“The primacy of reality is in itself a victory over nothingness, and the choice of good is always a judgement on evil, so that God has two aspects in himself: that by which “ab aeterno” good has been chosen by an irreversible act and evil is rejected as a rejected possibility; and that by which evil, as a discarded alternative, subsists forever as the backdrop of possibility and as a hidden but available possibility.”
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