FILOSOFIA

Whenever we talk about the beginning of modern science, we remember the scientific revolution that began with the work of Copernicus and the emblematic "Galileo case". Galileo was summoned twice to the court of the Inquisition and in the final judgement; he was forced to recant his belief in the movement of the earth around the sun. I call this inquisitorial process "emblematic", as many have wanted to present it as one of the most notorious episodes of the contradiction between reason and faith, between science and religion, between ideological dogmatism and critical thinking. We have talked a lot about the opposition to scientific ideas in the seventeenth century by a Church rooted in the stubborn defence of the Ptolemaic-Aristotelian cosmology. It is true that modern experimental science was developed from the seventeenth century within a controversial framework with the paradigms inherited from the past. It is true that the history of scientific thought underw...

Al Vaticano le interesa la figura de Descartes pero es preciso que se reconozca que intentó ganarse amistades dentro de la curia, relacionadas con el caso Galileo, y que trató de influir en el Vaticano con el propósito de rehabilitar a Galileo, el copernicanismo y predisponer favorablemente a la Iglesia a la fisicomatemática. Se valió de Mersenne y otros intermediarios para llegar hasta los Barberini nepotes y cardenales que fueron nuncios como di Bagno. Es preciso que se investigue la correspondencia de los Barberini, y lamentablemente este humilde profesor de filosofía de bachillerato no tiene acceso a ese tesoro, si existe, pues quien investiga encuentra en su camino muchas dificultades. Quizás también sea preciso revisar las informaciones recogidas por la Inquisición. http://www.news.va/es/news/entrevista-a-descartes-las-verdades-de-una-metafis El articulo es de Tullio Gregory, en L`osservatore romano  http://www.osservatoreromano.va/it/news/intervista-cartesio...