INTELLECTUS FIDEI DI SANT’ANSELMO, UNO SVILUPPO QUALITATIVO DELLA COSCIENZA E DELLA MEDITAZIONE TEOLOGICO – FILOSOFICA

In the encyclical letter Fides et ratio, no 42, Pope John Paul II submits to debate the beginnings of the scholastic philosophy, of the philosophically educated reason. The period beginning with the IXth century is generically called scholastic. The concept (schola-school) refers, as it’s well known, to those responsible for the sciences in a school. We refer to the teachers who activated within the diocesan and the court schools built by Carol the Great and afterwards in universities. As we know, by scholastic we pertain nowadays to the method of work applied in educational didactics, where the pros and cons of the questions are judiciously examined in order to find an explicit and distinct solution. Historically speaking, we already find ourselves in the period where the history of religion was assigned for the primacy of logos. From a specific point of view, belief means more than taking a decision – in favour of the truth. In other words, belief means sharing the conviction that intellection and meaning don’t represent an additional and coincidental product of the human being. On the contrary, every being is a product of thought and, in its most intimate structure, constitutes in itself a though