Cimitile Prize, Monday 10 June 2024, 7pm
Conference: Say God or keep silent?
Speeches by prof. Gianpiero Tavolaro, Extraordinary PFTIM; of the prof. Sisto Peluso, Giosue Carducci classical high school of Nola.
Say God or keep silent?
(un)actuality of the issue? The question of saying God concerns the way of speaking about a greatness/entity that is in itself immeasurable: not only ideal or belonging to the religious metaverse, but perhaps, if not completely non-existent, at least unspeakable...
(in)usefulness of a revelation? The question of God recalls another: that of revelation, or unveiling, manifestation, but also thickening of the veil, darkness. Due to an unexpected historical twist, the Enlightenment awakening that should have brought humanity out of its state of minority and rationally revealed everything, in the long run turned out to be less respectful of the nature of that divinity for which only theocratic chains were suffered...
(un)reasonableness of theological languages. If today the so-called Generation Z (born at the turn of the millennium until 2013) accuses our system of having caused a general (irreversible?) deterioration, it is because due to functional languages, they have not seen it reach operational efficiency ; of mathematics applied to physics, and today of algorithms applied to thinking machines, as imposed by the nascent society of the metaverse, somehow I. Kant (1724-1804) had already polemically warned that a visionary use of return Platonism cannot be pursued in support of theocratic linguistic hegemonies that claim to give name and word to the X, to the transcendental unknown, of which there are no phenomenal clues to think about intellectually...