Vito Mancuso

Vito Mancuso, a lay theologian and philosopher, has taught at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan and the University of Padua, and is currently a professor in the Master's program in Meditation and Neuroscience at the University of Udine. He founded and directs the "Ethics Laboratory" at the MAST in Bologna. He is the author of numerous essays that have attracted considerable public attention on topics such as the philosophy of Kant and Hegel, illness and pain, faith, the nature of God, the soul, eternal life, authenticity, love, thought, freedom, beauty, ethics and the cardinal virtues, courage, fear, the meaning of life, the mind, joy, hope, and the person and mission of Jesus in his dialectical relationship with Christ. His thought is the subject of a monograph published in Germany (Essentials of Catholic Radicalism. An Introduction to the Lay Theology of Vito Mancuso) and can be broadly defined as a "philosophy of relationship." He is a columnist for the daily newspaper "La Stampa.".