(Via Po, 20 November 2010)
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Unexpected creativity, risk theory and techniques of his computability unprecedented tension between the standard and if remedied, gambling and betting, travel and adventure: these are some of the ways in which the theme was declined Fortuna, keyword of ' last Festival of Philosophy in Carpi, Modena and Sassuolo, now in its tenth edition. The fact that we live in a world dominated by uncertainty, both on a personal level (lack of job and emotional) and collective (sunset horizons and ideologies, threatened by overwhelming force in the financial or environmental) that makes a crucial question of fate, favorable and unfavorable, that is, setting the status contingency as the litmus test of the relationship between possible and necessary.
Among the many responses made, two seem to indicate a common horizon of practicality. We are talking of the thoughts that Massimo Cacciari, professor of Aesthetics at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, and Emanuele Severino, a professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the same University, presented and discussed with the public during can , keynote the first, Fate and freedom, that of the second. A question that, in both cases, part of the language, weakened and worn today by the irresponsible use made of it in the belief that the link between power and knowledge it is the base. Here is that "knowledge becomes more difficult, complex, inaccessible," said Cacciari in his speech, "let alone the will to act." Not to mention that, Severino contends, "the way in which words are made earlier than that expresses a wisdom that is manifested in the use made of it." Here then going back in search of a sense of what is said, a task that linguistics is not only exercise but an attempt to give an account of human speech, itself regarded as action. "The concepts of fate, destiny, have long been in disuse" continues Cacciari, "were undermined by the a chance occasionally. It is therefore to see if you can find a way not to leave anything to chance, but without returning to the visions of type provvidenzialistico. I am convinced that we can act in a way, while having no idea about a general sense of the world and of history. " You should go back to the ancient awareness, memory of Socrates, in short, that "knowledge does not know." Because even in a state of systemic uncertainty may decide, bearing in mind that it is provisional and falsifiable each choice. "The minute this, then" Cacciari concludes, "the decision may be taken in accordance with the principle of as if, regardless of whether possession of a teleology. "
Certainly nothing is more dangerous than the unknown and nothing is more prudent saving a look that pierces the veils of the future, and reassured the man. "That's the myth, and later religions" Severino said, "try to inscribe the pain and the fear of death in a setting that makes sense, anticipating them, makes them bearable. The advent of philosophy tries to fight this conceptualization of the eternal (that is mythical or religious) that changing in fate, it becomes more dangerous than what he originally wanted to defeat. But the profound meaning of liberation, "continued the philosopher, "Lies in the dissolution of things from the relationship with the being and nothingness: for example, when a man is born, it is freed from the bond with anything and when he dies is the release from. Both fate and freedom are but two ways of understanding the oscillation between these two poles. This is why it makes no sense to speak of choice, because we must move beyond these concepts. "
In other words, the invitation to address the two thinkers is not to suffer or escape the crisis, but re-thought to reside. And to test the human condition from the perspective of the human condition itself.
Silvia Santirosi
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