Category: Life and death
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Pico della Mirandola and the Delusion of Omnipotence
Two epigraphs open Esalfa: Pico della Mirandola and Freud. Brought together, they speak to the two sides of human freedom: the dignity of choosing who to become, and the illusion of having no limits.
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Esalfa: a philosophy of the limit and the desire for the infinite
Esalfa and the human limit: a philosophical reading. Esalfa presents itself as a narrative laboratory in which to closely observe a tension running through all human existence: on the one hand, the insurmountable nature of the limit, marked by the finitude and transience of life; on the other, the often stubborn desire to transcend it, bordering on the delusion of…
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Dying in peace
A reflection inspired by Albert Camus: “No man can die in peace if he has not done what is necessary so that others may live.” A memory from age seventeen: I was about seventeen years old when I read the proceedings of a conference dedicated to transplants and organ donation awareness. One of the speakers opened the…