S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it (Jun 2023)

La morte alla luce della tensione vitale. Narrazioni e responsabilità

  • Leonardi, Francesco Pio

Journal volume & issue
no. 29
pp. 245 – 261

Abstract

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Death in the Light of Vital Tension. Narratives And Responsibility Death narratives are always within our thoughts, even if this is not always highlighted. Whichever way you look at it, death remains an unsolved question, and the main objective of this work is to reflect on the importance of caring, through the tool of narrative captured in a balanced way. Death will always remain a mystery, but our approach to its idea pursues the goal of respectful adaptation to the irregular and jagged edges of its profound essence. This brief survey consists of two parts: in the first, more substantial part, we will attempt to expose the way in which the question of death is thought of in certain cultural contexts; in the second, on the other hand, as a brief systematic conclusion, we would like to briefly highlight the vital tension present in the different narratives of death, with the perspective of an ethical approach in order to indicate the principle of responsibility as the privileged way to fully live the time of choices. Responsibility cannot be interpreted as a hermetic stopper over the black hole of non-sense, but rather as the way towards the production of a concrete reason, not as a projection of illusions, but as a reflection on each person’s history.

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