Una mirada personalista de la obra Pinocho de Collodi: ser persona, la libertad, el vértigo y el amor

Abstract

This paper will examine The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi from the philosophical framework of the personalistic school developed in the twentieth century. Emphasis will be placed on the concepts of human person, freedom and love as a vocation. An axi- ological proposal, following Alfonso López Quintás method, helps to clar- ify the distinctions between: person and object, sense and meaning (that which is essential and that which is denotative), “ámbito” and encounter, vertigo and ecstasy, event and historical fact. This work proposes a liter- ary personalism in which the art of fiction and the art of philosophical thought converge. One of the main contributions of this work is to show the usefulness of philosophical categories of personalism to analyze liter- ary works. In the case of Pinocchio we will study how, despite the initial experience of vertigo (debauchery, manipulation of beings), Pinocchio be- comes a real human being in which freedom and love have the last word.