TELEVISIONE - Pope Pius XII receives the technicians of French television in the Consistory Hall and witnesses a transmission experiment for the first time (1950).
18 ff.; V, 18-19). The universal order and the evident finalism in living beings prove the existence of a wise, provident God and creator of the universe in time. Above all, « sacrosantae Ecclesiae vox audienda est »; in faith « pio homini acquiescendum omnino est » (IV, 19; I, 10; IX, 7). A moderate motion caused by heat preserves and enhances man, giving him joy; excessive motion tends to destroy him, bringing him pain. Joy is good, pain is evil: thus morality is born, whose ultimate end is the self-preservation of being: everything that favors it is good, everything that opposes it is evil. This natural morality can be coordinated with Christian morality, which promises eternal preservation and joy (I, IX).
Telesianism immediately had resolute opponents (J. A. Marta, F. Patrizi, etc.) and enthusiastic followers (F. Martelli, S. Quattromani, A. Persio, T. Campanella, G. Bruno, F. Bacon, and the empiricists). It brings Renaissance Aristotelianism to a close and initiates modern empiricism. T. is a philosopher who struggles between the rational need for metaphysics and the fascination of empirical science, in the vain illusion of bringing both together into a single body of knowledge through his physical-metaphysical principles. To save a convinced adherence to traditional beliefs in God and the spiritual soul, an irrational fideism comes to the rescue, which would set a precedent.