Love and Sexuality
Human sexuality goes beyond biology: only self-giving love gives it meaning, direction and purpose. A reflection on education, marriage and holiness.
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If Truth Lies at the Bottom of the Well…
From Sciascia's well to Plato, Nietzsche and Foucault: what does it mean to seek the truth in the age of artificial intelligence and the infosphere? There are dialogues, written in memorable books, that leave their mark on us and settle in our memory; mysteriously, they return to our thoughts like sparks from a fire. In Leonardo Sciascia's novel The Day of the Owl (Il giorno della civetta), the mafioso don Mariano Arena, addressing Captain Bellodi of the Carabinieri, says: "Truth is at the bottom of a well: you look into a well and see the sun or the moon; but if you throw yourself in, there is no longer sun or moon, there is the truth."
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What Do We Leave in People?
Organizations measure almost everything: revenues, costs, productivity, customer satisfaction and employee engagement. Hospitals measure …
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Deep Lament as a Remedy to Superficial Complaints
We live in a culture that has made optimism a duty. Think positive. Count your blessings. Others have it worse. Pain is to be managed, …
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The Human Boundary Between Posthumanism and Transhumanism
In his book "Why I Want to Be a Posthuman", Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom describes the posthuman reality as follows: “You’ve just …
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