Si la libertad, el conocer y el amor son, según Nédoncelle, ‘Trascendentales personales’

Abstract

Besides the distinction between person and nature, other themes of vital importance in Nedoncelle’s anthropology are liberty, knowledge, love, intersubjectivity, and the personal relationship to God. In this work we ask if freedom, knowledge and personal love are, according to Nédoncelle, of the categorical or the transcendental order, i.e. of the order of the higher human faculties –intelligence and the will– or if they are rooted in the personal intimacy. To achieve this goal we will proceed as follows: first the liberty, for without it, in one hand, there can be no understanding of personal knowledge of itself and intimacy of others, and, on the other hand, there can neither be personal own love and to others. In second place, own knowledge and otherness, for without it there cannot be any speech of personal or intimate love. In third place, love, because it is the superior dimension, and, therefore, for its comprehension, it is required have noticed the foregoing.