"[...] anti-humanism is a characteristic feature of certain contemporary philosophies that at first glance are the antithesis of what Severino defends. They are, in fact, philosophies that deny Being and affirm appearance in its disorder, in its accidentality, in the arbitrary games of which man himself is the random result. By insisting on the “'difference”' between appearance and Being, these philosophies attribute to appearance, which for them is the only “reality” (if it can be called that) that can be spoken of, the characteristics opposite to those of Parmenidean Being. Severino, on the other hand, insists on these characteristics and denies the others. But he too reduces man to the domain of appearance and sees him resolved in it. “In Western language,” he says, “‘man’, ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘group’, “people”, ‘social class’ are words that express the forms taken by the persuasion that isolates the Earth, that is, the forms of alienation from truth”. In other words, they are “forms of error”. And so man and his world seem to be dismissed. But the “error” mentioned above can only be committed by Destiny, and so we can see in man “the appearance of Destiny”, that is, the dimension in which only “the occurrence of the mortal” is possible, with all that it implies. (from “Emanuele Severino”, pp. 104-105)"