Podium attended the lecture given by Italian philosopher Massimo Cacciari, and provided interpreting services from Italian to Greek and vice versa.
The famous Italian thinker was invited to Greece by the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens and the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In the packed lecture hall of the Italian Institute, Massimo Cacciari, a multifarious personality and a prolific writer with varied interests, who has also served three terms as mayor of Venice, presented a lecture titled: “Concrete Metaphysics”, on occasion of the recent publication of his eponymous book.
During a lively discussion with Ioannis Prelorentzos, professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Mr Cacciari referred to the topical dimension of Aristotelian metaphysics (“post-natural” investigation of the being), and to the convergence between science and philosophy that needs to be achieved. Massimo Cacciari, one of the most important representatives of Italian political and philosophical thinking and of the European intellectual elite, reflected on Europe’s desperate need to retrieve the roots of the classical civilization on which it was built, so as to understand what goes on around it, and to claim a better future for all peoples.
