Cornelio Fabro

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Cornelio Fabro (1911-1995) was an Italian Catholic priest and philosopher.

He was the founder of the Institute for Higher Studies on Unbelief, Religion and Cultures. He is known for his prodigious philosophical production and his thomistic thought. Fabro was engaged in the renewed reflection on Thomism, especially on the notion of "participation." He has also delved deeper into the relationship of the philosophy of Kierkegaard to Christian philosophy.

He astudied the origins and the nature of anthropocentrism in modern thought. Fabro also made a critical analysis of progressive theology.

[edit] Life

He first studied biological sciences in the University of Padova and Rome; and philosophy and theology in the Lateran University and Saint Thomas of Rome. From 1938 to 1940, he was ordinary university professor at Urbaniana University. In this last university he was first university professor, extraordinary (1939) and then ordinary (1942), of Metaphysics.

In 1948, he taught Theoretical Philosophy in the University of Rome. He also taught at the University of Perugia. He was the head of Faculty of Education from 1965 to 1967. In 1959, he founded at Urbaniana University the first ever European Institute of the History of Atheism.

[edit] Writings

His works were written in Italian. Here is an English translation of titles of some of his Italian works.

The metaphysical notion of participation according to S. Tommaso d' Aquino , S.E.I., Turin, 1939;
Perception and thought , Life and Thought, Milan, 1941;
The Phenomenology of the perception , Life and Thought, Milan, 1941;
Introduction to the Existentialism, Life and Thought, Milan, 1943;
Problems of the Existentialism, A.V.E., Rome, 1945;
Between Kierkegaard and Marx: for a definition of the existence , Vallecchi, Florence, 1952;
The absolute in the Existentialism, Miano, Catania, 1953;
God: Introduction to the theological problem , Studium, Rome, 1953;
The spirit , Studium, Rome, 1955;
The being to the existing , Morcelliana, Brescia, 1957;
Short introduction to the Tomismo , Desclée, Rome, 1960;
Participation and causalità according to S. Tommaso D' Aquino , S.E.I., Turin, 1960;
Introduction to the modern atheism , Studium, Rome, 1964;
The man and the risk of God , Studium, Rome, 1967;
Tomistica Esegesi Papal University Lateranense, Rome, 1969;
Tomismo and modern thought , Papal Lateranense University, Rome, 1969;
Karl Rahner and the tomistica ermeneutica , Divus Thomas, Piacenza, 1972;
The adventure of the theology progressive , Rusconi, Milan, 1974;
The anthropological carried out one of Karl Rahner , Rusconi, Milan, 1974; *Ludwig Feuerbach: the essence of the Christianity , Japadre, the Aquila, 1977;
The prayer in the modern thought , Editions of History and Literature, Rome, 1979;
The trap of the historical compromise: from Togliatti to Berlinguer , Logos, Rome, 1979;
The inaccettabilità of the historical compromise , Quadrivium, Genoa, 1980;
The alienation of the West: observations on the thought of And Severino , *Quadrivium, Genoa, 1981;
Introduction to saint Tommaso , Ares, Milan, 1983;
Reflections on the freedom , Maggioli, Rimini, 1983;
The Rosmini enigma , Italian Scientific Editions, Naples, 1988;
The tests of the existence of God , the School, Brescia, 1989;
The odissea of the nichilismo , Guide, Naples, 1990;
For a plan of Christian philosophy , Auria, Naples, 1990.