Senso e comunità

Abstract

Associating sense as feeling and sense as conceptual meaning and passing through Aristotle and Hegel, in the essay the “sense” is defined as the non-destructive but saving unification of thought with the things themselves, made possible because being itself is constitutively accessible and understandable, thus it includes knowledge as being close to another and being as another. The “sense” on this premise, is traced back to an intrinsic dimension of community, as it is argued in the essay by analysing the Being-toward-death and Being-with in Heidegger, and with references to Gadamer and Ricoeur: in the end, the sense is the other that does not separate itself or annihilates, but let itself be reached.