Conscience level 1
Today the sky is beautiful and blue. Although my body is confined to the ground, to the road surrounded by low houses, I look up and my gaze is filled with a blue that embraces and opens my chest, an early summer blue, fresh and warm at the same time. I see no boundary separating the sky from the landscape, everything is continuous, and I feel myself flailing my arms up there, longing to bathe in this amazement of brilliant emptiness.
I am trying to really understand friendship (3)
Aristotle implies that friendship flourishes and endures as long as friends base their actions and their relationship on virtue. In this case, the temporal element of friendship alerts us to the fact that it can end and lose its virtuous purity, but also emphasises that friendship (like virtue) depends on choices that may or may not be wise.
Beyond the self: the natural world
The confrontation and separation between the desiring subject and the alien and inflexible world is reminiscent of one of the most fundamental tenets of the 20th century existentialist current, which clearly outlines the idea that we are thrown into life without ever asking for it and without instructions on how to navigate it.
What does language want to tell us?
The poetic text displays this ‘margin’ of the word, of language itself, and of difference better than any other. Poetry advances on us, and reaches us with an impulse that pre-dates the constitution of the word. The poetic text points to the unspeakable, to what has no word to capture it, blossoming before our eyes and our senses in allusions, in symbolic force, in rhythmic games that point to the inaccessible margin of language [...]
I am trying to really understand friendship (2)
When we try to understand friendship through examples from our own lives, we see that some of these points are the very fabric of friendship, which is based on good intentions, altruism (wishing the friend well), honesty and unconditional acceptance of the other person. Aristotle's reflection shows that an individual's virtue is manifested in his or her relationships, and therefore the "habit of virtue" tends to establish relationships that go beyond practical interests and pleasures, fulfilling a propaedeutic function for the realisation of happiness. [...]
Serenity and separation
Either the bottomless abyss or the plain that stretches out pleasantly without borders. One side of life is unitary and concrete: what I do, what I've done, what I'll do, expressions of my free-will. The other side is dual and elusive. [...]