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Nationalities and global culture
by Michele Marsonet. University of Genoa Abstract It is often said today that the agreement on the possibility of greater mutual understanding among human beings has failed. Would have led to the resurgence of long-suppressed hatreds, hatreds that have their source in the differences linked to national identities, ethnic and religious. We would be short before the end of universalistic concepts that have permeated the last centuries. In addition, the skepticism resulting from the growing success of postmodern ideas on the philosophical and p…
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National identity and global culture
by Professor Michele Marsonet (University of Genoa, Italy). It is often said today that the agreement on the possibility of greater mutual understanding among human beings has failed. Would have led to the resurgence of long-suppressed hatreds, hatreds that have their source in the differences linked to national identities, ethnic and religious. We would be short before the end of universalistic concepts that have permeated the last centuries. In addition, the skepticism resulting from the growing success of postmodern ideas on the philosoph…
THE PROTOSINGULARITY MODEL
On human deep thinking (read an extract) Following the radical renewal brought to modern physics by Albert Einstein's equations, which redefined the fundamental categories of spacetime and gravitation; following the Quantum Revolution of 1927, which embraced indeterminism and confronted human reason with a nature that proved irreducible to the categories of absolute causality and unconditional objectivity, the contemporary scientific age is inexorably steering humanity toward technical frontiers that stand entirely beyond the reach of …
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Political Pluralism according to Pragmatism
by Prof. Michele Marsonet Pragmatists always had clear ideas about the relations between the natural and the social worlds. Most of them tell us, first of all, that human beings have evolved within nature as creatures that solve their survival problems through intelligence. The emergence of intelligence, on the other hand, must not be seen as a purpose of nature itself, but rather as our functional version of survival mechanisms such as physical force or numerousness. The systematic use of this intelligence in a context which is eminently so…
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