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What do a painter like Morandi, known for his still lifes, have in common with Federico Faggin, a computer engineer, father of microprocessors, with Alejandro G. Iñarritu, director of the film 21 Grams, and all of them with the mystic and poet St. John of the Cross?They all wonder about that which goes beyond the physical, that which transcends, that which has to do with the soul.

In philosophy, transcendence, in general, is considered the property or quality of something that is beyond, goes beyond a certain scope, and in this sense it is the opposite of immanence which, instead, indicates that which resolves itself or persists within a specific context. In an ontological or metaphysical sense the concept of transcendence coincides mostly with that of suprasensible reality and, in Christianity, with that of God understood as person and free creator of the world, contrasted therefore with all the “immanentist” conceptions aimed at identifying him with nature.