Dario Antiseri Quotes
1940–2026 Italy
Dario Antiseri (9 January 1940 – 12 February 2026) was an Italian philosopher and essayist.
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The continuous proposal of alternatives and relentless criticism are the two pillars on which all scientific research is based.
Supreme values are the subject of conscious choices: they are neither “proven” theorems nor “self-evident” and “self-founding” axioms.
Popper developed what is today the most rigorous, articulate and devastating critique of Marxism.
Living is learning. Science evolves in a Darwinian way: through trial and error.
Europe is its history. “And this history is not the history of an idea that allows only one tradition, but the history of a tradition that allows the most diverse and daring ideas”.
Having more theories available that allow us to see different aspects of an event and attempt to discard existing theories is not a weakness, but a strength.
Popper argues that the worst aspects of Marxism stem from Hegelianism, namely historicism and totalitarianism. Not only Hegel, but also Marx is a “false prophet”.
Life is understood through life. The past is understood through the present: it is present “experience” that makes past experiences relevant, that gives blood to shadows, that brings them back to life.
The acceptability of a scientific theory is relative to the knowledge and technical resources available at a given time. (p. 7)
Christianity was the most important political event in the West: by religious decree, the state cannot be everything. Theocracy, therefore, is not part of Europe's destiny.
In science, nothing is certain: neither general assertions nor observational assertions. (p. 7)