Introduzione. Metafisica: il mondo e il divino.

In presenting the classic themes of Metaphysics in a way that considers the variety of the historical approaches and the different possibilities of understanding it, it is necessary to accept the implicit theoretical plurality of perspectives. This means that more than one form of presentation is possible. In this line, it has been necessary to calibrate again the constitutive ideas of the special metaphysics, i.e. God and the world in a kind of formulation that first of all takes in account their relation and their development. For this reason, it is important to think back to the recurrent polarity of the forms, in which, in the history of philosophy, the divine and the world – this latter in the Greek characterization of cosmos, of order – have been interpreted. In this way, to outline God and world as a metaphysical question is also the proposal of a “metaphysics” considered in its minimal aspect as necessary, even if not sufficient, condition in order to talk about its specific dimension.