Emanuele Severino Quotes on Time
Emanuele Severino’s The Essence of Nihilism (1972) and the long sequence of works that followed develop one of the most distinctive twentieth-century Italian philosophical statements about the nature of time. The central thesis is that the entire history of Western philosophy from Plato onward is the history of nihilism — the conviction that beings come to be from nothing and pass into nothing — and that the Parmenidean recognition that beings are eternal must be recovered against this near-universal philosophical error. The corresponding analysis treats the apparent becoming of the world as the appearing and disappearing of eternal beings rather than their genuine generation and destruction, and the framework grounds Severino’s lifelong polemic against the Aristotelian, Christian, and modern technological extensions of the foundational nihilistic mistake.
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Attributed to Emanuele Severino:
“Becoming is impossible; what is, eternally is.”
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Attributed to Emanuele Severino:
“The West is the history of the conviction that things become; that conviction is nihilism.”
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Attributed to Emanuele Severino:
“All beings are eternal; appearing and disappearing are themselves eternal facts.”
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Attributed to Emanuele Severino:
“Parmenides spoke the truth that the West has refused.”
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“From In cammino verso il nulla (Towards Nothingness), in Gianni Vattimo , Filosofia al presente: conversazioni con Francesco Barone, Remo Bodei, Italo Mancini, Vittorio Mathieu, Mario Perniola, Pier Aldo Rovatti, Emanuele Severino, Carlo Sini (Philosophy in the Present: conversations with Francesco Barone , Remo Bodei , Italo Mancini , Vittorio Mathieu , Mario Perniola, Pier Aldo Rovatti, Emanuele Severino, Carlo Sini ”), Garzanti, Milan, 1990, pp. 32-33. ISBN 88-11-65871-3 .”
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“From In cammino verso il nulla (On the Way to Nothingness), in Filosofia al presente (Philosophy in the Present), pp. 37-38.”
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