How can an ancient philosopher help our life? The most dangerous misconception is to look for a superficial overlapping of modern and ancient ideas. On the contrary, the ancients are significant if and only if their thought challenges our categories. The essays identifies MacIntyre's unique importance in his historical awareness, even if many among his ideas can be traced e.g. in Max Scheler. A good example of an ancient able to challenge us is Lucretius's cruel phenomenology of inauthentic life, offering a starting point towards a true awareness of "bad life", necessary to be able to build one's "good life".
Milanese, G. F., Felicità degli antichi e dei moderni. Note tra Lucrezio e MacIntyre, in De Felicitate Animae. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Humanitatis Symposium, (Genova, 16-16 November 2013), Delta3, Grottaminarda 2014:<<Collana Alétheia>>, 13-33 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/64007]
Felicità degli antichi e dei moderni. Note tra Lucrezio e MacIntyre
Milanese, Guido Fabrizio
2014
Abstract
How can an ancient philosopher help our life? The most dangerous misconception is to look for a superficial overlapping of modern and ancient ideas. On the contrary, the ancients are significant if and only if their thought challenges our categories. The essays identifies MacIntyre's unique importance in his historical awareness, even if many among his ideas can be traced e.g. in Max Scheler. A good example of an ancient able to challenge us is Lucretius's cruel phenomenology of inauthentic life, offering a starting point towards a true awareness of "bad life", necessary to be able to build one's "good life".
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