"We are always exposed to the permanent risk of our contingency: the contingency of the environment, of society, our own intimate contingency. We ourselves oscillate, we are in oscillation with respect to ourselves."
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Cornelio Fabro
1911 – 1995
Cornelio Fabro (1911 – 1995) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Stigmatine Order and a scholastic Thomist prominent philosopher.
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