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born 1933 Italy
Carlo Sini (1933) is an Italian philosopher and one of the leading figures in contemporary Italian philosophy, mainly known for his studies about language and hermeneutics, following the work of Charles Sanders Peirce.
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Unlike joy, which is a momentary experience, localized in specific times and reasons, happiness perhaps has a more general meaning. Aristotle warned that a life can only be judged happy after it has been fulfilled. I would also use another formula, which I like very much and which says: happy is that life which realizes in maturity (or old age) the dream of youth.
When I say that truth is “relatively absolute,” I mean that the search for truth, which we cannot renounce, always takes place within a relationship. And truth, being dynamic in turn, arouses in us a moral duty, an uninterrupted questioning that can never be satisfied with a particular piece of knowledge.
I have come to believe that the West embarked on the path of logic, and therefore of philosophy and science, because it had a linear writing system, that is, a highly idealized alphabetic writing system.
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