Chiara Lubich and the Experience of the Claritas between Mysticism and Metaphysics

Abstract

The question “What is metaphysics?” it runs through the history of philosophy and finds a singular intensification in the last century by the hand of thinkers such as M. Heidegger and X. Zubiri. In the possible answer to this question, there is a, in some ways unexpected yet evident, “fusion of perspectives” with the mystique. Chiara Lubich’s experience in “Paradiso ‘49”, interpreted by the German theologian and philosopher K. Hemmerle as an “ontology of Claritas”, presents itself as a “place” where mystical experience and metaphysical intellection find a fertile exchange and mutual enrichment of unexplored virtuality.