What do you see in the image?
- We study the fundamental relationships of the person, those with the land, with work, with one’s culture…
- We study the difference between man and woman, feelings and their expressions as they reveal relationships, what differentiates and what unites…
- We study the difference between man and woman, the family, family networks, fraternity…
- We study filiation, paternity and maternity, the relationship between metaphysics and generation…
- We study the Church as a family, ecumenism, history and its ontological value, the Fathers of the Church, charisms and their ecclesial dimension, identity as a relationship…
The crisis of the contemporary times is marked by the inability of the different disciplines to dialogue with each other, an inability that makes them insignificant for the concrete life of today’s human beings. It almost seems as if the sciences are all called upon to take a step backwards with respect to their epistemic pretensions, in order to find a common logos that puts them back in touch with properly human reality and not only with technical or material dimensions.
There is a consensus on the diagnosis that this crisis is primarily metaphysical.
The absence of a common language on being makes dialogue between different specialisations increasingly difficult.
The ROR Project originates from the conviction of its members that overcoming this crisis cannot consist in a return to a pre-modern state, but requires an ontological work to extend metaphysics to the relational dimension.
This can be achieved from different fronts: from the analysis of patristic thought to anthropology; from the awareness of the fundamental role of hermeneutics to the relationship with the social sciences. In particular, Pierpaolo Donati’s relational sociology provides a valuable stimulus from the latter.
This is especially true as regards the development of a relational epistemology, that is, an epistemology capable of treating relations as its own objects.
