Abstract

PIERPAULI, José Ricardo. The Onto-Theological Foundations of Political Philosophy by Alberto Magno. Prax. filos. [online]. 2020, n.51, pp.31-54. ISSN 0120-4688.  https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i51.10289.

The thought proposed by St. Domingo de Guzmán to the Preachers Order has reached, in the work of Albert the Great, its first academie and systematic expresión. The vita activa is an effusion of the vita contemplativa in the temporality. Both of them constitute what, in dominican tradition, is called vita apostolica. The aim of the present paper is to show that contemplation not only guides moral and political action, but it basically transforms it. Men are not only good because they can offer a rational answer about God as a first cause, but because by contemplating the Revealed God and His Work, they decide to translate His model in political life, through the virtus politica.

Keywords : Political Order; Contemplative Life; Active Life; Apostolic Life; Political Virtue.

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