La patologia universale, o dei capricci teologici della salute

(Universal Pathology, or: On the Theological Whims of Health)

Abstract

Augustine is at the beginning of a twofold development of ideas which may appear contradictory in its outcome but is perfectly coherent if one considers the initial approach. On the one hand, health has nothing to do with sickness (from a structural standpoint, the good is not at all implied with evil): pure health and the impossibility of getting sick and die do exist. On the other hand, and precisely for this reason, health (understood as the actual health of the human being, the real health with which we are concerned here and now) is so close to sickness that it itself counts as a form of pathology.