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Boscarino, Giuseppe

Epistemology of hope : the creed of the free spirit

2021 - PM Edizioni

178 p.

  • The book was born in a sad and troubled historical moment of our time, of covid 19, where common forms of feeling, perceiving and experiencing the natural thing mediate with higher forms of interpreting it scientifically, as well as of relating ourselves to it from an economic and political point of view. All this calls into question still other more complex forms of interpreting it and relating to it, such as religions, philosophies, morals. And with them, hoping, believing and thinking. The comparison is with the ways of believing, thinking and hoping within what we call traditions of thought. These have conceived their relationships differently.
  • Our belief in the light of what also comes to us from what we have called the protoscience of Lucretius and which led us to give the title of our book, is that the potentiality, which can be believed to be the foundation of hope, is not an ontological category of reality, which instead is what it is both in its apparent being, the phenomenon, changeable over time, as in its being, unchanging over time, the essence, but rather an epistemological category, of the episteme, that is, of the scientific theory, either in its elementary forms, which we analyze, or in the most advanced and developed ones of the traditions of thought, within which it lives, in particular, according to our own belief, in the Italic one. [Publisher's text]