John Searle remains one of the living greatest philosophers and was born today in 1932 (same age of my grandpa) and I grasp the occasion to wish him a happiest birthday. Searle is an exponent of the Anglo-Saxon analytical philosophy and has been giving for years huge contributions on philosophy of language, a field I…
Month: July 2018
Feuerbach: a romantic atheist full of optimism for human beings
On July 28 1804, the same year Napoleone established the French Empire ruling over Europe, Ludwig Feuerbach was born in Germany: Feuerbach means literally “river of fire” and maybe it is not a coincidence as his thought will burn down the foundations of the philosophy of his master, Hegel. Before seeing Feuerbach, an important premise…
Why Karl Popper remains the last greatest philosopher
On July 28 1902 in Vienna the greatest Karl Popper was born, one of the greatest philosophers of our times, a man with an extreme intellectual finesse able to develop a thought able to intertwine both science and knowledge with his political vision based on the idea of freedom as the main principle, also within…
Carl Jung: how we know ourselves passing from the subconscious to the conscious
Whoever knows me also knows that I am not at all a lover of psychology in general, especially of the early psychology and one figure I find from an intellectual point of view controversial is Carl Gustav Jung, born on July 26 1875 in Switzerland. I am not a psychologist and I am not interested…
The Window on the World 