"Anyone who looks through the telescope and sees things differently from me is always someone who can teach me a lot, and I will read it with the attitude of a disciple who wants to understand what is not yet clear to him; if I then discuss their conclusions, I will do so with the respect and gratitude we owe to those who have paved the way for us to go further, evaluating their approach retrospectively on the basis of their arguments, not a priori by comparing their conclusions with my own. This is the attitude that my teacher Guido Calogero taught me to call ‘the will to understand’ or ‘the spirit of dialogue’."
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q:it:Antonio Capizzi, La repubblica cosmica. Appunti per una storia non peripatetica della nascita della filosofia in Grecia, Edizioni dell'Ateneo, Roma, 1982.
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Guido Calogero
1904 – 1986
q:it:Guido Calogero (1904 - 1986) was an Italian philosopher, essayist, and politician.
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