Democrazia e Diritti Sociali (Dec 2023)
Per un umanesimo della fragilità. La fragilità come virtù politica
Abstract
How did we come to lose fragility as a constitutive value in the formation of the human being, reducing it to little less than a character defect to be treated? Perhaps we find a key to understanding it in the shortcomings and errors of which education is guilty today. Fragility is one of the supporting structures of life, one of its ontological roots, it is its history, and its value must absolutely be recognized if it is to be protected by the community. But the error of the educational crisis can also serve. It is of history and in history. It shows the fragility of historical facts. In remembering past things, in living the present, in imagining the future we always experience the dark awareness of our fragility. But this awareness of fragility is the revelation of human nature, or of that something which in its fragility reveals a particular beauty. Tis does not give fragility the sense of weakness but it is the peculiarity of the human condition to ask questions that are not answered.
