«It’s not my fault». «They misconstrued me». «I’m a victim of circumstance». New mantras of an age, ours, in which the throne stands empty, as our tragic everyman Fantozzi knows all too well. In an excursus on the Imperative of Responsibility and its disappearance – from Netflix to Jonas – Raffaele Alberto Ventura maps out a way forward: to reclaim it. Always.
At the Museum of Empathy you literally walk in someone else’s shoes, but metaphorically, you step into the future: the one we’ll leave to our descendants. Roman Krznaric invites us to become good ancestors, cultivating an alternative view and nurturing our acorn-brain. From carpe diem to carpite diem: let’s seize the moment, and let’s do it together.
What does the philosophical principle of intergenerational justice mean? We asked one of its noble fathers, the philosopher and professor Alberto Pirni, to find out how it fertilely grafts not only onto the abstract concept of morale, but also onto the concrete reality of the soil, in terms of sustainability and responsibility in the consumption of resources. Revolutionizing the alibi of Enough.
If it is morality, it is ever-changing, in relation to the mutations of the planet and in mankind coming from contemporaneity. If it is morality, it knows how to modify itself in order to protect life, each and every form of life. If it is morality, its synonym is "therefore".