Salvatore Natoli - Ethica di Baruch Spinoza
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November 3, 5:45 PM, Sala del Maggior Consiglio
Salvatore Natoli
Ethics
by Baruch Spinoza
Philosophy as a struggle for truth is not an abstract doctrine, much less a mere profession, but a way of life: this is why Spinoza titled his major work Ethics. For him, intellectual conduct and real life are one and the same. He himself stated this in a letter to De Blyenberg: "And even if one day I were to discover that the fruit I now derive from the natural intellect is false, it would make me fortunate that I enjoy it and that I try to spend my life not in affliction and groaning, but in tranquility and joy" (Ep. 21). Philosophy is both an exercise of the mind and a practical life, and thought is called to a task that admits no surrender. For this reason, philosophy, always in its incipit, is a constant beginning again. Reading a philosopher, therefore, means renewing the experience of thinking through him, and this can only happen if we identify with his own experience.
Salvatore Natoli was born in Patti (ME) on September 18, 1942. He graduated in Moral Philosophy and taught Logic at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Milan-Statale, and Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca. His research has focused on passions and affects: pain, happiness; and, most recently, the theory of action and forms of doing. He stands out in the Italian and international philosophical scene, and in intense debate and confrontation with Christianity, he has arrived at a notion of an "ethics of the finite" rooted in the ontology of relationships.
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Salvatore Natoli - Ethica di Baruch Spinoza
Palazzo Ducale
49,790 views
November 3, 5:45 PM, Sala del Maggior Consiglio
Salvatore Natoli
Ethics
by Baruch Spinoza
Philosophy as a struggle for truth is not an abstract doctrine, much less a mere profession, but a way of life: this is why Spinoza titled his major work Ethics. For him, intellectual conduct and real life are one and the same. He himself stated this in a letter to De Blyenberg: "And even if one day I were to discover that the fruit I now derive from the natural intellect is false, it would make me fortunate that I enjoy it and that I try to spend my life not in affliction and groaning, but in tranquility and joy" (Ep. 21). Philosophy is both an exercise of the mind and a practical life, and thought is called to a task that admits no surrender. For this reason, philosophy, always in its incipit, is a constant beginning again. Reading a philosopher, therefore, means renewing the experience of thinking through him, and this can only happen if we identify with his own experience.
Salvatore Natoli was born in Patti (ME) on September 18, 1942. He graduated in Moral Philosophy and taught Logic at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Milan-Statale, and Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca. His research has focused on passions and affects: pain, happiness; and, most recently, the theory of action and forms of doing. He stands out in the Italian and international philosophical scene, and in intense debate and confrontation with Christianity, he has arrived at a notion of an "ethics of the finite" rooted in the ontology of relationships.