摘要
Pathos, that ＂passion of life and thought,＂ essentially based on the profound aspiration to the beyond, to the unknown, to Mystery, characterized Panikkar＇s entire existence and thought, always placed ＂beyond borders.＂ It is through this ＂empeiria of the soul＂ that the philosopher re-reads the complex issue of faith, connoting it as a constitutive, mystical dimension or ontonomical relationship and consequently as an orthopraxis. From this point of view pathos represents the foundation of his ＂philo-sophia＂ in its etymological meaning of ＂wisdom of love,＂ which opens to the pursuit of ＂the fullness of life,＂ an aspiration of every human being. Today, this generates challenges, which only an intra-inter-cultural dialogical approach, open to different perspectives and based on a diatopical hermeneutics, able to put in contact radically different human horizons, can respond.
