Dear friend

I am glad to give you the welcome on this my page.
A sky with some clouds is the background
of my greeting, as metaphor of the existence
of all we,
where the clouds never are lacking,
where the clear sky is however possible
and where the wind of the reason
is always able to avoid the storm.

My name is Carlo and I was born in Turin (Italy)
in the 1937, where I live today with wife,
a son, a daughter and two little grandsons.
I have had to start to work relatively early,
neglecting my true interests.
My basic education is technical-scientific,
but then I devote myself to humanistic literature,
to which I have been able to reserve only
the moments to spare.
After were even regular studies,
but always in the spare time
and conditioned from the necessity of to earn
and to scrape a living.

I am not then a philosopher by profession,
even if I am dealing with philosophy
from many years.
I am not able to say if that fact was actually
a disadvantage for my philosophy.
Indeed, I think that, having the duties
of my life forced me to do other things,
I lived as "a man in the street" and therefore
I have had the opportunity of compare
the abstract philosophical theories
with the praxis of the real existence
of mine and of other people,
probably better than the professional philosophers.

I will add that even I account for the fact that
generally the accredited philosophy
deals of intellectualistic problems
often much far from the real life
and that the self-reference of the academic world
remain too far from the concrete problems
of the existence.
Fot that my attempt of work out a vision
of the world and of the existence (a weltanschauung)
anti-conventional and for much turn of the all new,
that enters in the everyday reality
of the man in the street,
dealing with its practical and existential problems,
which, more or less, concern all of us
and that to which all we try to find, somehow,
theoretical solutions and practical remedies .

Is the philosophy useful for the life? I think so,
because for me it was, but I am even aware
that others find excellent solutions and remedies
in the rich ideological store of the religions
and of the pseudo-religious ideologies,
which affirm to "know already all"
and that are able to sell their "truth"
in well ready-made packets,
to which is enough "to believe".

I, on the contrary, start from the assumption
that we are dipped in an abyssal
and irremediable ignorance and I think that it,
together with the psychic suffering,
is the true tragedy of human existence;
not just the death, that is the biological event
without which could not exist the life.

On the other hand, the homo sapiens
is too insignificant and from too little time
in the universe, for to know much more of that
is in its very small space-temporal grasp,
but is for it even more difficult to discover in itself
the sense of own existence.
For that it invented God and his substitutes.

The science continually breaks down
the walls of the unknown
and offer us its achievements,
but there are questions to which, probably,
it will not ever be able give answers,
because they are out from its field,
that is that of the objectivity that it concern,
relating they instead the individual subjectivities,
which are not investigating from the outside.
The experience of the world and of the existence
that concerns all of us, in fact,
is not referable to the generality of the faculties
and behaviours of the homo sapiens as species.
The world and the life of which we are experience
is always "mine " or " yours " stuff
and never stuff of the homo sapiens in general.

So, I know of to know a little or nothing,
for this reason I am one what looks for
and that doesn't know if what it has find
is valid for other people.
I only say that the religion has worked
for millennia and for billions of men
and it will be able still work
for much and long time,
but there is always someone for whom
it don't work and is not acceptable at all
as reality mystification.
If it helps a lot of people to live,
to exorcize the death, to justify the suffering,
to give a sense to the world,
there is yet always someone to whom
it appear as a surreptitious ideological
and mystifying tool,
which is able to make understandable
and acceptable the world just because
it put itself aside from the reality.

To these "someone",
a few or many they are,
I turn my reflections,
whose results don't have to be given
for granted data, being instead
some bases of search,
from which someone can start to build
its own philosophy and its concept of the world.
I don't propose some truth, but an opening
of horizon on the unknown.
An opening that everyone can then
widen by himself and in one's own way.

I propose you the text of
"Necessity and Liberty"
for to enter in the horizon of my weltanschauung.
Unfortunately, my limited knowledge of English
don't permit me to translate quickly from Italian.
For my slowness, at the moment,
only the first four chapters are translated,
but I hope, enough soon,
to complete at least the work for the first part
of the book, that is for the chapters 5 and 6.
If you wish to receive the file word
(specifying if only for the four chapter in English
or also for chapters 5-13 in Italian)
I will glad to send as attachement you by e-mail.


My regards and good reading!

Carlo Tamagnone
[email protected]


NECESSITY AND LIBERTY