La metanoia della Tavola di Cebete alla luce della 1 Pt.

• Autores: Marco Adinolfi
• Localización: Antonianum, ISSN 0003-6064, Nº. 4 (October-December), 1985, págs. 579-601
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The Metanoia of "Cebes" is not indeed a religious one; it remains rather within the confines of logic and psychology. It is philosophical inasmuch as it is presented as a deliberate change of direction, which reaches its "terminus ad quem" in purification, "salvation" and happiness. Thanks to its ethical intellectualism, this type of Metanoia is the equivalent of leaving behind one ignorance and error to acquire knowledge and truth.

    The Metanoia of "Cebes" remains imprisoned within an exclusively earthly - "this worldly" - horizon, while the "conversion" of 1 Pt is man's becoming - and henceforward being - open to God in Christ. With "Cebes" Metanoia is an autarchical return of the individual to his own authentic being, a return that permits him to gain possession for himself of knowledge-virtue. Virtue thus consists for man not in a vital relationship with God, and in obedience to God's will, but in the endeavour to realise by oneself one's own rational nature.