Natum esse. La condizione umana

[Autom. eng. transl.] Who is the man? A "radical" question, which concerns us in the first person singular and which gives us a precise philosophical task, as urgent as it is unavoidable, but which, at the same time, cannot ignore a reflection on "being born". In this sense, the volume proposes to lay the foundations for a native anthropology that opens up to the original Chi of man and thinks of his own self starting from that formidable promise of relationality which is birth. Moreover, being born among men is the only possibility of humanizing: God himself chose to be born of a woman to ask for hospitality and citizenship in the world of men, subjecting himself to remain, to put it in the manner of Sartre, like a strawberry of blood in a female womb. In order to outline a semantics of the human alternative to the usual image of man - defined only on the basis of his being "mortal" and not his "native" being - the essay then examines some moral figures of the human condition and native thought, making it a point of reference for philosophical reflection. Beginning with Job, the wise man who in his illness curses the day he was born; to conclude, in the contemporary era, with the resentment of the technological man in front of the natum esse by Günther Anders and the resumption of that powerful philosophical category which is the natality of Hannah Arendt. This essay, therefore, reminds us of the sum that birth - whether intended as a day on the calendar or as the sign of a "Totally Other" that calls us to life - is that "absolutely new" event with which each of us he comes into the world among other men, always carrying with him the fundamental question about the "Who" of man, his place in the identity space of human relations and the meaning of his own action.