The second hour established two lines of research determined by the articulation between Christology and anthropology: the first, the chiasmus of the God-man and the communication of idioms in God; the second, the communication of idioms (ἀντίδοσις τῶν ἰδιωμάτων) and the chiasmus of the properties of body and soul in man. The thesis of De fide orthodoxa was presented as a general horizon: due to the unity of their single hypostasis and the "perichoresis of the parts", the two natures in Christ "mutually communicate their idioms". Moving from the Greek to the Latin world, we then examined in detail the Augustinian version of the communication of idioms (in Christ) and the chiasmus of properties (in man). We emphasized the kinship of structures and followed Augustine's analysis of ordinary language, showing the chiasmus at work in phrases like "he is now at peace" (said of an individual, when the phrase can only concern his soul); "he is buried in such and such a place" (said of an individual, when the phrase can only concern his body). We have thus been able to demonstrate a link between property chiasmus and metonymy. Returning to the Passion of Christ, we addressed the theme of chiasmus of denominations, introduced by theEncyclopedia article "communication d'idiomes": "c'est par communication d'idiomes qu'on dit que Dieu a souffert " or that " Dieu est mort ". We concluded by mentioning four philosophical problems concerning pain drawn from Moritz Schlick or Ludwig Wittgenstein, justiciable for analysis in terms of "property chiasmus", including the question of whether one can suffer "as to a part or the whole of a thing that one is not or that one is unaware of being".
18:00 - 19:00
