CENTRE FOR ITALIAN PHILOSOPHYCassino, Italy, Sala degli Abati (Badial Palace), Saturday 5 October 2024the SEMINAR was held: CRISIS OF TOTALITY AND DECLINE OF IDEOLOGIESModerators (in their capacity as Co-Directors of Civitas et humanitas, Professors Paolo Russo and Pasquale GiustinianiThe seminar in fact took its cue from the volumes from the annals of ethical-political culture CIVITAS ET HUMANITAS:the volumes were illustrated by Professor TERESA SERRA (La Sapienza University, Rome)- first volume under consideration: Crisis of ideologies and new ethical-social instances (Mondostudio, 2020);Speakers:Pietro Boccia - SociologistPermanent and inclusive education as a way out of the crisis of ideologies and neoliberal/totalitarian capitalism;Michele Indellicato – University of BariTotality as synchronization between horizontal transcendence and vertical transcendence in Karol Woityla;Giuseppe Cantarano – University of CalabriaCrisis of ideologies in the twilight of politics;Giovanni Turco – University of UdineThe right of rights. Louis' philosophical-juridical contribution; Lachance, through and beyond the crisis of totality;Alberto Nave - University of Cassino and Southern LazioFrom weak thought to the "weakness of thought" and the nemesis of reason (against the backdrop of the contemporary crisis of totality)- second volume under review: Crisis of totality and risk of survival (Mondostudio, 2021)Speakers:Pasquale Giustiniani – Suor Orsola Benincasa University - NaplesThe whole is superior to the part, of which it determines the scope and limits. A criterion for the season of "resilience";Lelio Imbriglio - E-Campus University – Novedrate (CO)Crisis of totality and new ethical-pedagogical demands;Aldo Gervasio – Psycho-pedagogistThe mystagogical pedagogy of Ignatius of Loyola;M. Gabriella De Santis – University of Cassino and Southern LazioComplex society, globalization and pedagogical-educational paradigmsMichele Leone - MusicologistMysticism between identity and otherness in the songs of Franco BattiatoCassino, Italy, October 4, 2024, Prof. Pasquale GiustinianiPresents the eleventh and twelfth volumes of the series “Civitas et humanitas”, concerning respectively: Crisis of ideologies and new ethical-social instances and crisis of totality and risk of survival.These Annals of ethical-political culture, created for the initiative and generosity of Prof. Alberto Nave – coordinator of the Civitas et Humanitas Movement, generated in connection with the University of lower Lazio of Cassino – connected to the Center for Italian Philosophy, today directed by Aldo Meccariello with headquarters in Terni, can today celebrate two volumes XI and XII of the series. Both help us to put under the spotlight of our intellectual light full of love (Paradiso, canto XXX, v. 40), two notable profiles, both significantly reread under the profile of the crisis, to which some of the Authors of the volume oppose possible exits in the path of ethics and even in the path of the religious. Pareyson already conceived the idea of God as crucial in the definition of existentialism as a philosophy of the finite, destined to resolve itself, as a philosophy of choice, in spiritualism. For Pareyson, the historical crisis is a cultural and above all philosophical crisis: the crisis of philosophy, for which, with a chiasmus of a typically Castellian tone, the philosophy of the crisis is the crisis of philosophy, it is the crisis of idealism in its Hegelian culmination. In turn, Castelli is the one who remains most, also problematically, tied to the idea of existentialism as a philosophy of crisis understood as structural. Castelli's reflections. which introduced the single issue of «Archivio di filosofia» of 1945 and also the political sense of the organization of the 1946 congress, directed at that time towards the easiest reading at a superficial level: the crisis is the abyss into which the entire world and Europe even more found itself precipitated at the end of the Second World War, the abyss of material destruction, of the millions of deaths, of the extermination in the concentration and extermination camps, of which there was still little awareness, of the dehumanization legacy of totalitarianism. Existentialism would be, as a philosophy closely connected to life and philosophy of individual commitment and responsibility, the possible cultural response to the metaphysical abstractions of idealism and its epigones. Christian existentialism, described by these authors as a philosophy of crisis, could only translate into the crisis of philosophy, so that the alternative of Christian existentialism founds spiritualism, providing the reasons for the choice, once made one can resume philosophizing, despite the crisis. Christian existentialism, which Castelli reluctantly took up, certainly does not present itself as a philosophy of transit towards another, nor even as a foundation in the sense proposed by ...
