N. 33 (2017)

Sandro Mancini

Il senso e il futuro della coscienza individuale
nella metafisica di Piero Martinetti

PP. 343-366

1. Attualità e insostanzialità dell’Uno e dell’io nell’itinerario martinettiano, dalla gnoseologia all’ontologia, fino alla mistica razionale, p. 343; 2. Monismo e pluralismo nell’idealismo trascendente martinettiano, p. 348; 3. La funzione del finalismo nella comprensione del rapporto tra l’io e il mondo, p. 352; 4. «Questo solo sappiamo: che ciò che era degno di vivere, vivrà ». p. 357.

Abstract
Sense and future of the individual consciousness
in the metaphysics of Piero Martinetti
This article analyses how the philosopher Piero Martinetti (1872-1943) conceptualizes the survival of a person’s soul after death. Martinetti’s stance is strongly influenced by the philosophy of Plotinus. Martinetti shows that the relation between singularity and multiplicity is expressed in human beings as two different and complimentary perspectives: (1) a fundamental identity in the atemporal dimension of the intelligible life of the spirit and (2) a dynamic tension in the empiric order of the spatio-temporal becoming. Both dimensions express themselves in a finalistic way, attracted from the One who operates in them as a force of harmonization and concentration. The One as Omnitudo realitatis is the cornerstone of Martinetti’s position in regards to the survival of the individual soul after death: a concentration that happens mysteriously, because it transcends the ability of the human mind to understand it – yet, it certainly happens. «One thing only we know: what is worth living will live.»

Keywords: Symbolic and conjectural metaphysics, Plotinus, The One, Omnitudo realitatis, Transcendent idealism, The relation between the self and the world.