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Essere vs Fare – podcast

Being vs doing.
Journey into the house of being, the language

The fifth stage of our journey is about two words: being and being.

How much are we what we are and how much what we do? From the Hamletic question “to be or not to be”, we move to the dilemma of being compared to doing.

Audio and video available in Italian only.

0:22 Inizio 
2:34 Cit. Virginia Woolf, Orlando 
3:05 Che fai? Io sono… 
4:24 Cit. Schopenhauer, Biografia 
5:27 Significati dei due verbi (Cit. Shakespeare, Amleto) 
6:49 L’albero di pesco 
7:23 Cit. Heidegger, Essere e tempo 
8:24 Equivocare l’essere col fare 
9:36 Ti amo “a patto che” 
10:34 Vai bene così come sei 
11:01 L’uomo del fare vs l’essere 
12:03 Il verbo essere utilizzato nel giudizio 
13:07 L’accento sempre sul fare (Rif. “Milano non si ferma”) 
15:19 Se non faccio, non sono 
17:05 Covid e attacco di panico 
18:52 Cit. Winnicott, Genesi del falso sé 
21:49 Cit. Massima Zen, Suzuki 1972/1974:98 
23:08 Domande dal pubblico

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