Giovanni Grandi
Centro Studi Veneto «Jacques Maritain»Università degli Studi di Padova – Dipartimento di FilosofiaAccording to Sergej Averincev, «Athens and Jerusalem», mean «the contrast and the meeting of two creative principles». We have to read this two creative principles as the epiphany of different – and equally fundamental – human approaches to reality, not as two «stages» of a unique evolutionary movement of Culture, a movement in which the first principle – Jerusalem – would be the pre-history of the second one – Athens –. The Hebraic-christian universe is not the prehistory of the Greek universe. It is another...