Articles in English
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My contention is that, ultimately, responsibility is a contract between two people rather than a property of the brain, and determinism has no meaning in this context (Michael Gazzaniga). See how a neuroscientist departs from reductionist paradigm in “Decoding the Brain’s Cacophony”, (The New York Times, 31 Oct., 2011), just few days before the launch…
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I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others’…
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These days I read a new book, a kind of Christian postmodernist mysticism. The issue is given by the problematic dichotomy: faith or reason? Faith beyond reason? Faith against reason? Faith is irrational, illogical and absurd? Religion is irrational! New atheists trumpet the claim loudly, so much so that it’s become a sort of conventional…
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God made man in His own image, and man hastens to return the compliment. (Voltaire) (…) I don’t think we have a generation that does not believe in God as much as I think we have a generation that believes in a god of their own making. We could call this the “iGeneration.” It is…
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Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension. The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires. This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast,…
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