Critical Note About Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Truth as Nature

Abstract

This work studies part of the phenomenological thought that characterizes Hans Urs von Balthasar in the first part of his work The Truth of the World, where the question of the truth is addressed in what is shown to us as knowledge. H. Balthasar analyzed the epistemological field within the existential plane of the subject in relation to the essence of truth (of the object). By emphasizing the essence, he found the ontological linkage of truth, being as a transcendental determination that is given to us prodigiously upon knowing. Leading him, finally, to discover the foundation of spiritual contact between the subject and the object, the gaze of a third one: God.