After nearly a millennium of pages and words spent on these two strange concepts, it can add without being banal or worse, gone?
Let's start with Heidegger and his major work, Sein und Zeit (Being and Time), according to Vattimo , it can also be called Being is time.
The temporal dimension of the person, his being finite and transitory, for the death of its very ontological constitution (Sein zum Tode ) is the specific condition of human life , and therefore more important. The being has never stopped, becoming, and becoming inevitably leads in the non-being. It is therefore necessary, according to Heidegger, on his shoulders his destiny, the same for all outside of the possibility of a choice, and taking account of our live temporality.
Being is time, takes place in it, can not exist outside: the man is required to appropriate the time of its relevance to understand, first, and to join.
The big lesson is, in our opinion, this: your interest in time for it and for it ourselves.
You can apply the same argument to space? We can and must.
Not only the weather affects us and makes us who we are: the space also has an important role in defining and make ourselves.
As we all know (and we can not help but notice), beyond any generalization or simplification, there are temporal characters ( Zeitgeist), which distinguish time, and likewise there are space characters that mark a place ( Raumgeist ?) and its history.
If the weather conditions there for themselves, through space affects us places.
But there is one big difference: abstract time is equal for all (as a succession of moments and fulfillment of shares), otherwise the space, which we do not means nothing in the abstract.
Space is staff, accompanied by concrete life of a person in the form of the places where she grew up and lived. We believe we can, in this case, talk of a "personal geography " that affects the lives of everyone of us, in a curious compose and recompose of past events and places.
Recognizing the importance of personal geography is fundamental to the formation of the individual .
We are what we are only for what we spent, but also for where we passed.
Our thoughts, our preferences, tastes, fears, the character in a word, our psyche has been shaped the places of our lives, persons who have inhabited them from the objects that occupied by the nature that has made them as they are.
We have already talked about psychogeography, or that of the environment (space) work on our thinking, indeed, without much success, perhaps, our knowledge is still immature to understand whether and how we should speak of this influence of nature on man.
On the other hand, if the space change and mold our bodies, why should not also change our thinking? Our skin, the color of the eyes, cheekbones, our phenotypes vary depending on environmental conditions that characterize our space.
Even our language, the brand that we (contradictory) differs from other animals change the variation of space: vocabulary, phonetics, syntax and semantics are much more sensitive to space than to time. Suffice it to say that the 'Italian we use today is not too different from that of Dante, while just a few miles away for not being able to understand a word in the local dialect.
And the language is it not stored in our brains, is it not the cornerstone of our thinking? We can conclude that our way of thinking is not only the fruit of time in which we live, but also the place where we live and that each man be a child of his time, is true, but also to its space.
understand ourselves by appropriating our geography is a task more complicated than ever and, now that the story seems to move towards a progressive loss of meaning and significance geographic .
Without realizing it and without being able to fully understand this process we have become one-dimensional men. We live in a function of time, which today has become the quintessential existential dimension: technology There is also and above all to save us valuable time, transport must be more efficient and therefore faster, become more effective communication, and faster.
tend to flatten the space, which is as a contract, losing its meaning. The space today is something to occupy, to be overcome or to admire, according to the expression: now the living room, now purely geographical space, now the countryside.
In the past the area was laden with a meaning deep, reminding man of his size finite and limited: it was impassable space, space travel, which differed (and therefore the same evaluated ) the land, customs, language.
The disappearance of geography coincides with the devaluation of its meaning, and generates a loss to know.
know that today should be found to regain their own - or maybe even rebuilding - a personal geography (in geography because there is a collective if not institutionalized ), indicative of values \u200b\u200bfor each of us, taken individually.
geography rather than a personal, intimate , a geography that can not be shouted in the streets, against another and opposite different geography, a geography of all-political, it should not be built at the level of polis, but at the level of 'anthropos .
not surprising, but rather restless, now the strongest political movements to leverage on the old ideology almost 100 years as that of Blut und Boden to ensure a success that would not otherwise have.
Building and build a table in political geography false for digging into a mass of roots means first of all forget that ignore geography, to have any positive or free from parochialism, even worse, racism and above all to help the formation of the individual must be personnel or ongoing .
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