Autore:
Massimo Adinolfi
Titolo [Ita]:
L'attualismo di Gentile e la pigrizia del mondo
Title [Eng]:
Gentile's actualism and the laziness of the world
Data pubblicazione: 2014
Fascicolo: LIII - anno: 2014 - pp. 9-30
Lingua: Italiano.
DOI: 10.1400/252562
Abstract [Eng]
Following the tradition that has its culminating point in Kant’s booklet on “What is Enlightment?” and in Fichte’s ethical system, Giovanni Gentile’s actual idealism is morally incompatible with laziness. In place of a phenomenology of laziness, the essay proposes a brief philosophical and literary description of this phenomenon, by examining the writings of Ivan Goncarov, Emmanuel Lévinas and Roland Barthes. It then goes on inviting the reader to consider the paradoxical effort that Gentile’s Ego has to make in order to fight the natural laziness that dwells in his heart. To feel tired (an hendiadys?), to feel lazy is actually the condition that the extreme surveillance of Gentile’s act considers a duty to conceal – a metaphysical and moral duty at the same time. However, it is also the state in which it is not consciousness that feels, but the world.
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