Del peregrino medieval al hombre contemporáneo: una actualización antropológico - existencial del Homo Viator
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Universidad Católica Luis Amigo
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El artículo se propone dilucidar y explicar la figura del homo viator como un concepto antropológico existencial a la luz del pensamiento de Gabriel Marcel, quien pareciera entre otras cosas, conciliar al hombre con un sentido de existencia, que aunque se proponga inacabable, en tránsito, en proceso de. armoniza y apacigua la angustia y le devuelve el valor a la “búsqueda de la verdad” como un elemento constitutivo de la realización del ser, precisamente desde el no deja r de buscar, como si la verdad de un camino se tratase. Al plantearse la vigencia del homo viator, en un sentido antropológico y existencial, se hace menester poner en diálogo a autores medievales como Agustín de Hipona y Tomás de Aquino con Gabriel Marcel . Más allá de las evidentes diferencias de contexto en el Perceval de la leyenda artúrica, la práctica medieval del peregrinaje y el homo viator marceliano, estos tienen una visión en común, que la vida del hombre es su camino, no hay quietud, es un camina nte hacia la verdad, hacia un horizonte que lo desborda.
This article seeks to elucidate and explain the figure of the homo viator as an anthropological - existential concept in light o f Gabriel Marcel’s thought. Marcel appears to reconcile the human being with a sense of existence that, though unfinished, in transit, and in process, harmonizes and soothes existential anguish. He restores the value of the “search for truth” as a constitu tive element of self - realization, precisely through the refusal to stop seeking — as if truth itself were the path. By addressing the relevance of the homo viator in both anthropological and existential terms, this work brings into dialogue medieval authors such as Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas with Gabriel Marcel. Beyond their different historical and philosophical contexts, as seen in Perceval from the Arthurian legend, the medieval practice of pilgrimage, and Marcel’s modern reinterpretation, all s hare a common intuition: human life is a journey, not a state of rest. Man is a traveler toward truth, walking toward a horizon that transcends him.
This article seeks to elucidate and explain the figure of the homo viator as an anthropological - existential concept in light o f Gabriel Marcel’s thought. Marcel appears to reconcile the human being with a sense of existence that, though unfinished, in transit, and in process, harmonizes and soothes existential anguish. He restores the value of the “search for truth” as a constitu tive element of self - realization, precisely through the refusal to stop seeking — as if truth itself were the path. By addressing the relevance of the homo viator in both anthropological and existential terms, this work brings into dialogue medieval authors such as Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas with Gabriel Marcel. Beyond their different historical and philosophical contexts, as seen in Perceval from the Arthurian legend, the medieval practice of pilgrimage, and Marcel’s modern reinterpretation, all s hare a common intuition: human life is a journey, not a state of rest. Man is a traveler toward truth, walking toward a horizon that transcends him.
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Patiño, K. (2025). Del peregrino medieval al hombre contemporáneo: una actualización antropológico - existencial del Homo Viator