"Antitesi" versus "sintesi": la virtuosità dell'insaturazione

(“Antithesis” vs. “Synthesis”: The Virtuosity of Insaturation)

Abstract

One of the points seemingly made by Genesis 3, a foundational text in Western culture, is that one of the essential conditions that guarantee human identity is the preservation of a criterion of epistemological insaturation, that is, of dualistic antithesis that, in the specific circumstance, separates Adam and Eve from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The essay argues that the criterion of epistemological insaturation, that is, of dualistic antithesis, is one of the essential conditions to guarantee both the survival of an ontological specificity (namely, in this case human identity) and the survival of the possibility of its epistemological investigation. Conversely, the mechanism of epistemological saturation, that is, of absolute synthesis, seems potentially to bring to the extreme positions of epistemological totalitarianism and anarchism.