OAR@UM Collection: /library/oar/handle/123456789/15374 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:49:53 GMT 2026-01-09T16:49:53Z Useless suffering /library/oar/handle/123456789/142460 Title: Useless suffering Abstract: It is argued that with Emmanuel Levinas, the theodicy project attempting to reconcile a benevolent and just God with the existence of evil reached its conclusion. Scriptures, philosophers and theologians have long addressed the problem, but a comprehensive theodicy in the modern sense does not emerge before Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz coined the term in 1710. [excerpt] Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/142460 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z The father's female body and the daughter's male voice : gender subversion in Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi's verbal ecstatic drama /library/oar/handle/123456789/141595 Title: The father's female body and the daughter's male voice : gender subversion in Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi's verbal ecstatic drama Authors: Camilleri, Charlò Abstract: An uneasy task - In the book The Probation, the account of Mary Magdalen's five-year period of mystical tribulation, where the mystic endured challenging interior trials, Sr Maria Pacifica del Tovaglia recalls how, on September 28, 1586, while in an altered state of conscience, Mary Magdalen...[excerpt] Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/141595 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z I meditatori carmelitani : un caso di studio in relazione al concetto di collocazione del sé /library/oar/handle/123456789/141591 Title: I meditatori carmelitani : un caso di studio in relazione al concetto di collocazione del sé Authors: Camilleri, Charló; Formosa, James Abstract: Definire il sé è una questione complessa e i tentativi di farlo possono aprire alla fallacia del jingle-jangle. In un tentativo errato di fissare il concetto di sé, viene fatta una distinzione tra il sé minimo e il sé narrativo. Il sé minimo è il soggetto immediato dell'esperienza, non esteso nel tempo. Può essere equivalente al proto-sé di Damasio o all'egocentro di Hartelius. [excerpt] Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/141591 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Celebrating Valletta's architect of destiny [Inaugural speech] /library/oar/handle/123456789/141434 Title: Celebrating Valletta's architect of destiny [Inaugural speech] Abstract: It is both an honour and a privilege, as President of the St John's Co-Cathedral Foundation, to welcome you all for this evening's organ concert by Maestro Josep Sole Coll, the internationally acclaimed Spanish organist of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Today's organ concert marks the inauguration of a remarkable exhibition covering the legacy of one of the most visionary minds of the Renaissance - the brilliant Italian architect and military engineer Francesco Laparelli from Cortona, who projected, drew up plans, and laid the foundations of our beloved capital city of Valletta. [excerpt] Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/141434 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z