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| Natura: | Recurso digital |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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2025
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| Accesso online: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18837619 |
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Sommario:
- <p><em>To Be and Not to Be</em> is a philosophical inquiry into the gradational nature of human existence. Rejecting the idea of being as a fixed substance, the book presents the self as a dynamic transition—an oscillation between simplicity and complexity, autonomy and dependence, presence and non-presence.</p> <p>Through a distinctive conceptual language, the work explores how independence emerges paradoxically from non-autonomy, beginning with the embodied dependency of early life and culminating in the radical inward autonomy of advanced age. The text traces existential thresholds across the human lifespan—from infancy to ninety years and beyond—revealing how selfhood transforms from familial embeddedness to solitary systemic consciousness.</p> <p>Central to the book is the notion of sigmoidal movement: a spiral trajectory of becoming that does not proceed linearly from simple to complex, but curves, reverses, and envelops itself. In this movement, pain, autonomy, causality, and family structure are reinterpreted as structural conditions of being rather than psychological states.</p> <p>The work challenges the assumption that independence is isolation. Instead, it proposes that autonomy arises through tension between the self and the world of the self—between inherited structures (family, stereotype, causality) and the unbearable freedom of self-composition. At the far edge of life, being becomes thought itself: a point of existence no longer defined by bodily movement, but by reflective systemic presence.</p> <p>Situated at the intersection of existential philosophy and ontological anthropology, <em>To Be and Not to Be</em> redefines existence not as a binary condition, but as a gradational becoming in which autonomy is both impossible and inevitable.</p>