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Prosophy. After Philosophy
Prosophy. After Philosophy
Prosophy. After Philosophy
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Fourth edition (March 2015, fully revised).

Western societies have recently entered, wittingly or not, their first post-philosophical age. It's a bold experiment in unassisted history. The long struggle to achieve truth, method, logos, vision, reason, system, structure, etc. has left the making of local and temporary agreements on a neo-pragmatic basis as the only standing pillar of wisdom. The relativist/pragmatist’s perspective grants a poor overall direction, however. In front of the global community of diversities, the relativist faces the future on an impromptu schedule, a risky journey.
Being-to-the-world is what we humans share. It’s a disquieting condition. It allows for all understanding and misapprehension, certainty and doubt. All-encompassing grasp, philosophy's original purpose, is still what we should care about. Yet, no universal knowledge can be found where philosophy lost itself, on local paths to some comforting answer. The demise of philosophy as vehicle of ordainment is a great leap forward. But it leaves a void that we had better fill with a new overall conception, lest anything be true or false, wrong or right at anyone’s whim. A cool, primary convergence of concepts below a seedbed of welcome difference is what prosophy is after.

And when past societies had separately prospered in peace within their local solutions, now that they are melting in one big pot an unbiased vision is due. Common grounds and all sort of difference should be suitably encompassed. This inclusive picture I call prosophy; its hands-on branch, general or elementary biography.

Cover: The Vanishing Owl. Photo and art by P.U.Brusa.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 14, 2014
ISBN9781310104046
Prosophy. After Philosophy
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Paolo-Ugo Brusa

Italian by family and citizenship, born (1950) and living in San Marino, SM. School years in Rimini, 1958 to 1965, and Bologna, 1966 to 1974. Doctoral degree in Philosophy from Bologna 'Alma Mater' University in 1974 (master thesis on the education of James Joyce). Enrolled in San Marino public schools as a teacher of Italian, History and Geography in junior high (1974-1995); then of History and Philosophy in high school until retirement in 2010. In the early 80’s, I was involved in developing computer apps in a ground-breaking field, at the time: individualized teaching aid for Down children. Works include 'Parentesi', 1983, a collection of free verse; 'Ripeness Is All', 2012, a red carpet of pictures; 'La cura di sé (in giovane età)', 2018, a bildungsroman; 'Genesi. L'origine qui e ora' (my fifth philosophicsl essay, to be published 2023).

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