The Core of Fortune

English Editorial (translated by Silvia Benso)

Abstract

Because of its condition of quasi-unthinkability, the concept “luck” takes up aspects that differ from one context to the other, depending on the surrounding notions that inflect it one way or the other. Its imprecision as a blind and magnetic point is integral to its nature, it cannot be brought to clarity. Yet, because of its persistence at the center of any theoretical position that takes a stand in favor of freedom, justice, the efficacy of virtue, or merit, luck remains an unescapable philosophical challenge.

The ontological aspect of fortune is the most disquieting. Fortune and misfortune appear as atmospheric weather impending on the subject’s head and constituting some sort of its environment. For such weather, the astrological barometer marks the tendency toward good or bad.