PROGRAMME >> EVENT #28  

sunday aug. 31.time 11.30.Chiostro San Francesco - 3,00
Salvatore Natoli - Think up your life. Virtue, ethics, aesthetics of existence

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Can we live in the world without seeking refuge in an improbable transcendence and without delusions of omnipotence? Do hope, tolerance and humility still exist? As Natoli has it, “Virtue is a way to move back from yourself, to lose weight, to look at yourself from the outside”. It also helps you take care of yourself, add elegance and style to your life, establish better relationships with others, and to become aware that happiness is a personal idea: a subjective experience, a vision of the world and a social good. So, think up your life, mixing a dose of creativity with the basics of morals and the aesthetics of living.

Salvatore Natoli
teaches Theoretical Philosophy at the Università Statale di Milano-Bicocca and the History of Ideas at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. He has contributed to many journals such as Prospettive settanta, Il centauro, Democrazia e diritto, Religione e società, Leggere, Bailamme and Metaxù. His books include: L’esperienza del dolore. Le forme del patire nella cultura occidentale (1986); La felicità (1994); Dizionario dei vizi e delle virtù (1996); Parole della filosofia o dell’arte di meditare (2004); La salvezza senza fede (2007) all published by Feltrinelli; La felicità di questa vita (Mondadori, 2001); Sul male assoluto. Nichilismo e idoli del Novecento (Morcelliana, 2006); La mia filosofia. Forme del mondo e saggezza del vivere (Ets, 2008); Il buon uso del mondo (Mondadori, 2010); and L’edificazione di sé. Istruzioni sulla vita interiore (i Libri del Festival della Mente, Laterza, September 2010).