Resumen de Creationism and eternalism in contemporary Italian metaphysics: critical notes on Leonardo Messinese's "La via della metafisica"
Leonardo Messinese’s La via della metafisica (ets, Pisa 2019) offers an excellent presentation of what is at stake in today’s (continental) debates on metaphysics.
These critical notes focus Messinese’s confrontation with Emanuele Severino (1929-2020), and Severino’s rejection of any theistic ontology and metaphysics, arguing that each and every being is eternal. Messinese’s central claim is that Severino’s arguments can lead to a (revised and qualified) assertion of creation as the key notion that links God and the world. The gist of Messinese’s argument is that the mere assertion of the two dimensions of logical and phenomenological immediacy would not provide a sufficient reason for the phenomenologically immediate appearing of a processual and changing reality. However, unless Messinese provides a full-blown refutation of a rather large part of Severino’s thought, his move from the principle of Parmenides to the principle of Creation will remain gratuitous and philosophically unjustified.
