Dell'analogia dell'essere e dei modi in cui si dice

On the analogy of being and the ways in which it is said. The essay intends to analyze the relationship between the two main modalities, namely attribution and proportionality, through which the so-called “analogy of being”, that constitutes the metaphysical declination of analogy in general, has historically been configured. In this regard, authors referable above all to the current of Neothomism are taken into consideration in order to show the theoretical reasons (concerning the links between unity and multiplicity, identity and difference, finite and infinite and in reference to this the relationships between participation and creation, causality and act of being, agnosticism and univocism) which underlie the analogy of being and the interweaving of the ways in which it is said. First of all we recall the reflection of thinkers who support the priority of the analogy of proportionality (Maritain and Stein) and then we move on to consider (also with excursus on the positions of Gilson, Berti and Possenti) the thought of philosophers who highlight the anteriority of analogy of attribution (Fabro and Maréchal). Finally, the relationship which the two analogical modalities have with the notion of metaphor (Melchiorre) is shown, notion that opens up a horizon of meaning in which the metaphysical and hermeneutical dimensions end up being structurally interwoven.