Carlo Bordoni

Human history is a history of individuals – of kings and queens, of leaders and thinkers, and of the many individuals who struggle, work hard, and find their paths in life. It is also the history of individuation, understood as a continuous search for autonomy, self-affirmation, and the achievement of personal goals. Today, however, this process of individuation is coming...

Our societies are in transition, spurred on by a pandemic that disrupted many aspects of the social world we once took for granted. We’ve left behind the ‘solid modernity’ of the twentieth century and even the ‘liquid modernity’ so brilliantly analysed by Zygmunt Bauman. But what kind of society is now taking shape around us? In this highly original reflection...

Human civilization is founded on ethical principles, norms of behaviour that have accumulated over time. Perhaps the oldest of ethical principles is the rejection of violence, which includes the respect for life and for the physical and psychological integrity of others. However, in some circumstances, violence itself can be regarded as ethical – for example, when it is used by...

Human history is a history of individuals – of kings and queens, of leaders and thinkers, and of the many individuals who struggle, work hard and find their paths in life. It is also the history of individuation, understood as a continuous search for autonomy, self-affirmation and the achievement of personal goals. But today this process of individuation is coming...