Pantaleo Carabellese


Pantaleo Carabellese was an Italian philosopher.

Biography

Graduated from the University of Naples with a "laurea" in history and again from the University of Rome in philosophy, Carabellese taught philosophy in Palermo, Sicily and in Rome, marrying in 1936. Having carried out a rigorous critique of Cartesianism, Carabellese completed critical studies of authors including Immanuel Kant and Antonio Rosmini. Carabellese is further known for his "critical ontology", where Being is not the mere abstract object but the inherent and irreducible foundation of consciousness, and thus the "being of consciousness" that, ultimately, is none other than God, who, properly speaking, "is" but does not "exist".
As a philosopher, Carabellese defended the essential objectivity of Being and philosophy understood, not as a specialized, compartmentalized field of inquiry, but as investigation of the foundations of practical life, operating "for humanity as a whole" so that "philosophical consciousness explicates that theory which results necessarily implicit in the concrete diversifying of spirituality"; accordingly, "the effort of philosophy can never be completed act," even though "theory actuates itself always in one practice, which is the other term of the concrete".
In critical opposition to modernism, Carabellese set out to defend philosophy as theoretical-rational ascent to theological realities, or as pathway to one common foundation of political life that remains irreducible to political life.

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