A stuffy atmosphere pervades Kingdom Hall, the suburban assembly point for the small community of Jehovah witnesses in the magnificent ‘Apostasy’ – the debut film by Dan Kokotajlo. With skew face closeups reminiscent of Dreyer’s Johan of Arc, and a masterful… Read More ›
Ne ‘Il Giornale’ del 14 Maggio 2012, Marcello Veneziani articolava una riflessione veramente degna di nota. Voglio riprodurla nella sua interezza, per la forza e lucidita’ del suo argomento (link originale qui): Alla fine ha vinto Marx. Siamo tutti uguali: individualisti… Read More ›
Questa intervista al grandissimo Enrico Bombieri e’ molto profonda. A un certo punto B. dice: “Il Dio che viene dal pensiero di Gauss, così come il riferimento ‘il cielo stellato sopra di me’ di Kant, che pur non essendo un riferimento a Dio… Read More ›
In 2004, two great figures of Europe’s Life of the Mind met to discuss the times of faith and secularization. This is the book containing their thoughts. Ratzinger has been extremely bold in trying to confront the implications of science… Read More ›
Sebastiano Timpanaro did investigate the relationship between Giacomo Leopardi and d’Holbach in the Italian preface to the latter’s book “Good Sense”. Clearly, d’Holbach was just a broadcaster of the doctrine the Portuguese-Dutch thinker had previously elaborated. The Portuguese-Dutch thinker was… Read More ›
The great Giorgio Colli wrote a superb introduction to Spinoza’s Ethica, here reproduced in Italian – from ”Per una enciclopedia di autori classici”, Adelphi: “L’Etica richiede lettori non pigri, discretamente dotati e soprattutto che abbiano molto tempo a loro disposizione…. Read More ›
De natura et origine mentis Dove si dice dell’ebreo maledetto In Spinoza leggo che una successione di idee inadeguate -o di immaginazioni- e’ causa di distorta conoscenza ed ergo di distorta posizione dell’uomo nei confronti del mondo. La grande idea… Read More ›
“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of… Read More ›
Whether an age or an individual will express itself in creative thinking or in repetitive pedantry is more a matter of desire than of intellectual power, and it is probably more the nature of their desires than of their capacities… Read More ›
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