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I am shocked by the idea that there are still people who take seriously Popper's analysis of Plato – “that bitter enemy of freedom”, as Marcello Pera uncritically describes him – without questioning the texts, checking the quotations or comparing them. These are elementary operations. Today, these may be unknown to most people, but they cannot escape the attention of a scholar who aspires to this role or who remembers them.

— Giovanni Reale

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Without inspiration, without the Muses' enchantment, no artist, no matter how skilled they may be, can be considered a true artist.

Faced with death, one cannot help but cry... Crying is suffering in the face of true evil, and what is more true than death?

Aristotle was not only his critic, but also his most brilliant student. He rejected his doctrine of ideas, but I am not so convinced that he was horrified by his political convictions. He borrowed the ethical virtue as a happy medium between extremes from Platonic thought.

Camus said that Christ came into this world to face two problems that philosophy will never solve. First: why do I suffer? And second: why am I born with a sign around my neck saying “condemned to death”? Jesus took them upon himself, thus making them sacred.

While the term "henology" is widely used in foreign languages, for example in French, it is almost never used in Italian and should therefore be introduced. We have used the initial h because it conveys the harsh spirit of έν, but above all to differentiate the metaphysical term from the current one.

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