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The Dominant System of Thoughts and the Possibility to Dissent.

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Every society, every historic period has a way of thinking or a view of the world that is more common, more popular than others, nevertheless there is always a different way of thinking that starts at a certain time in that same society. Probably the most known of the ancient Philosophers, thanks to Plato who wrote a series of dialogues in which Socrates is the main character, Socrates was somebody who dedicate his life to questioning men and authorities and he paid with his own life his determination to pursue the truth above everything. Giordano Bruno, Tommaso Campanella, Jeanne d’Arc,

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Is Philosophy Really So Distant From Our Life?

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Knowledge, reason, mind, freedom, destiny, identity, God, goodness, justice, politics are all issues which are dealt with in Philosophy, but they are also questions that people generally approach in a more spontaneous way, since these issues are precisely those which shape the way we think about the world and how we define our place in it, as well as being major issues examined by many great thinkers. The word ‘philosophy’ brings with itself some rather unfortunate connotations; you often hear that it is abstract, it does not have much to do with the real world, that it is stuff for

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Positioning Philosophy in the Western Culture

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In this podcast I talk about the importance of philosophy in the western culture and science; I also deal with the questions of “what is philosophy?” and “what philosophers do?”. The question of the relation between life and thinking is also treated here; freedom and understandings are strictly interconnected, for example. What type of questions characterise philosophical interrogation? Is philosophy a science or an art? Click on the play button below to enjoy it. =======^^^^^^^^^^^^^^=======^^^^^^^ The production of cultural stimuli and the original research that you can find on this web site requires hundreds of hours of work each month.

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