My name is Paolo Gasparini. I'm a physician, and bioethicist, passionate about philosophy and interdisciplinary content, and deeply interested in the dialogue between reason and faith.
Beloved reader, the words of the title of this blog reflect the contents and the purpose that I’d like to propose.
Medicine separated from philosophy was not conceivable in antiquity. My deepest desire as an "elderly" doctor and bioethicist is to help young people to know and love the incarnate Truth, Christ.
To achieve this goal there are three means: science, philosophy (pure reason), and, even more so, living faith, animated by catechesis and, even more so, by theology.
As in the classical syllogism - identity card par excellence of reason -, the bridge that connects the two extremes is constituted by the discovery of the middle term, which in science is, in the case mentioned above, the overcoming of one of the fundamental forces of nature to produce another; so in the Christian life, the door to access it, to overcome the world and find access to God, is prayer.
"God, in fact, is not so much an object to be thought - says a theologian - , much less discussed endlessly, as a Presence to be sought. The art of such seeking is contemplative action, and its end is mystical union, both in this life and hereafter."
I dedicate “Ora et Cogita” to the memory of Benedict XVI - Joseph Ratzinger.
I’m very happy you are here!
Paolo
