Significato etimologico del termine setta

Termine che nel tempo ha conosciuto nell'uso comune numerose trasformazioni e che oggi viene per lo più utilizzato in senso spregiativo, etimologicamente il vocabolo “setta” rimanda alla neutra definizione di un movimento di pensiero che si tipizza per elementi identitari differenti rispetto alla “scuola” dal quale è germinato: se l'imprintg era di natura religiosa, il termine identificava allora gruppi minoritari che contestavano l'autorità dottrinale della Chiesa d'origine (e così infatti, proprio come una setta, a suo tempo è stata bollata la Chiesa valdostana da parte della Chiesa cattolica e, nel mondo dell'Islam, la minoranza sciita da parte della maggioranza sunnita).

Antonio Meneghetti: seminario in Lettonia

Sasha ha detto...

Ho partecipato ad un seminario in Lettonia tenuto dalla FOIL lettone e indirizzato ai giovani.
Nella conferenza inaugurale il prof. Meneghetti ci ha spiegato chi è il “giovane”.
E ci ha fornito una sorta di schema, formato da tre punti da individuare.
Il primo punto riguardava le nostre capacità, cosa sappiamo fare, quali sono le doti naturali, quali le risorse territoriali, le amicizie e le conoscenze da poter utilizzare.
A che fine? Ecco il secondo punto: il progetto. È necessario individuare il proprio, quello che vogliamo fare, quello che ci interessa, il nostro desiderio profondo che ci dà realizzazione: individuare quindi le risorse e dar loro un indirizzo.
Infine come terzo punto: la costanza, l’azione giornaliera mirata alla costruzione del nostro progetto. Alla fine della giornata dobbiamo poter dire che abbiamo posizionato un mattone in più per il progetto.
Ho apprezzato molto questa sorta di buon senso elementare, facilissimo da comprendere, ma per niente scontato … anzi! Interessanti gli strumenti ontopsicologici per attuare questi tre punti.

ringrazio Sasha per il contributo.

ONTOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND CONSCIOUSNESS

“All my scientific work can be viewed as an exploration and demonstration of the capacity to know what is real in a true and reversible manner (from the concept to the object and vice versa). In addition to my philosophical and theological competence, I have tested each of my positions through the clinical experience of individual and group psychotherapy. On the strength of decades of work and consistent results, I feel safe in asserting that I have the authority needed to demonstrate the capacity to know and judge of our intelligence. The error that mires our critical consciousness is not found in the nature of our intellectual faculties or those of our will. The error resides in the process of reflection, in the formulation and determination of the consciousness. Once this has been revised, philosophy and science are rendered authentic points of reference in the evolution of true existence.”
The style and the lines of arguments are not easy. But even Aristotle or Kant might envy the simplicity of the explanation. All of Ontopsychology, from clinical practice to art, is put to use on addressing the critical problem of awareness. The familiarity of the world, between intellect and ontology, allows Meneghetti to manoeuvre his intellectual attitudes in masterful fashion, without ever losing sight of Parmenides’ rule: being is, not being is not. Existence, to the extent that it constitutes awareness, either coincides with the principle or has never existed. Today philosophy no longer exists: all that remains is thought based on fragmentation and failure, and thus approximation and nihilism. Meneghetti opens the argument.

Antonio Meneghetti

Twenty years of Summer University of Ontopsychology

Twenty years of Summer University of Ontopsychology

Although the majority of people (if not all of them) use holidays to increase the amount of lead that already exists within their individual existence, some who perhaps possess more consciousness of the gift of life take the opportunity of holidays to polish the gold that they possess intrinsically. According to the ancient school of alchemy, ignorance was quite precisely referred to as lead and the uniqueness of the soul’s knowledge was referred to as the philosopher’s stone – namely gold. That is the reason why the Summer University of Ontopsychology always takes place during the month of August. This year the Summer University will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary. The first session was organized in 1988 right in Lizari, on the subject of creativity, where ontopsychological thought was discussed with one of the most renowned experts on creativity, Prof. Barron from the University of Santa Cruz in California. Since then the event, promoted without interruption during these twenty years by the A.I.O., has always been characterized by a growing number of participants, in addition to a growing amount of events and subjects debated. The approach has always remained the same as the initial one: 10 to 15 days during the summer where, alongside the actual study session, events are also organized over the whole period ranging from art, fashion, sports, culture and recreation. It has always been held between the Umbria and Lazio regions, but shortly this format will be exported abroad and other countries will be hosting it. The forthcoming Summer in August 2008 will be the last one to be held on Italian territory. Summer is the occasion where an entire year’s work of the Ontopsychological centres in the world gathers as one, where all nations come together and meet, setting up their plans for the following year. A chance for everyone to meet and grow thanks to these events.
The first Summer events were dedicated to defining the ontopsychological methodology, which subsequently led to the books entitled Ontopsychology Handbook and Dictionary of Ontopsychology.
Eventually they took place as students from the Saint Petersburg State University began to take to their final oral and written examinations in Ontopsychology, within the Ontopsychology Department of the university, which are mandatory, according to the Russian ministerial programme, in order to obtain a degree or a postgraduate degree in Ontopsychology.
In the past few years, the Summer session has engaged in such socially-oriented subjects as “Social Justice” in 2006, “Intellect and Personality” in 2005 and “Philosophy Fundamentals” in 2004, which have led to the drafting of as many books (ref. www.psicoedit.com). Also this year the Summer session has produced two new books, namely Conoscenza ontologica e coscienza and Scheda storica sulle teorie della Conoscenza (Ontological knowledge and consciousness and A review of the theories of knowledge in history. See New Publications within this edition).

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