Realism without Reality?

Editoriale inglese (tradotto da Silvia Benso)

Abstract

In recent months, the philosophical and political debates have been characterized by an exorbitant frequency of the term “realism.”

This issue of Spazio Filosofico is concerned not with “realism” but with reality. The debate on old and new realism is here simply taken as an occasion to re-propose one of the most classic philosophical questions: What is reality? What is being?

In a very broad sense, realism is the attitude of those who are not willing to betray reality or turn their back to being. However, in order not to betray something, it is important to know or try to say what it is that one wishes not to betray.

In this sense, there is no philosophy that is not realist, and philosophy can be described as a conflict concerning the most appropriate name one should give to reality.