DALLA FUGA MUNDI AL CONTEMPTUS MUNDI SEGNO DI UNA RICERCA CONTINUA PER L’UOMO
FROM FUGA MUNDI TO CONTEMPTUS MUNDI A SIGN OF AN ONGOING QUEST FOR MANKIND

Summary/Abstract: When we look at how people lived in the past, it can happen that we remain puzzled and see no trace of meaning. In this article I consider two paradoxical attitudes from the past: fuga mundi and contemptus mundi and I try to show that life is not always a linear path, nor a safe, predetermined and progressive journey. On the contrary, history shows us that one’s existence is spontaneous and dynamic. From time to time, one must return to the cave of their interiority to find there, on another level, the possibility of a new beginning, separating oneself from what normally distracts one from their fulfilment. Sometimes this withdrawal can lead to contempt. A philosophical reading of these matters, apparently purely theological, brings new and rich meanings into focus.

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