Tematiche morali nell'opera di Pietro Abelardo

The work intends to focus on one of the main authors of medieval philosophy, Peter Abelard, and re-propose the importance of the moral themes that involve not only aspects of anthropology, but also of ontology, not yet thoroughly investigated. In order of this revaluation and proposed of Abelard’s work, the study intends to take as a formal object a relationship’s ethic based on two measures: one objective, God and his will, and one subjective, the man and his consciousness. Often studies of moral’s thought of Abelard insisted on only one of the two measures conceiving so his reflection as "suspended" between two poles, which are contradictory if taken separately: the pole of a subjectivist moral, in which the judgment of conscience closes to instances purely arbitrary, and the pole of a moral with a character totally religious, such as to preclude any interest to the philosophy that questions on happiness. Only the category of relation, conceived in order to Trinitarian revelation on which Abelard exercise his thoughts unceasingly, can avoid this risk and open to a hermeneutic that is, at the same time, faithful to the text and attentive to the needs expressed by the abelardian thought. In other words, only the relational dimension can account for the interiority of the individual as a place of listening and the possibility of encounter with the Other itself and lead to the perception of-front, the ob - jectum as a personal call to self-realization.