What kind of human being does multiculturalism presuppose?

Multiculturalism: what are the conditions for coexistence?

Islamophobia: the fear is of difference

Some words begin as descriptions of a phenomenon and end up preventing us from understanding it in all its complexity.

Notes towards a Definition of the Concept of Education

To begin, education must be defined as a category in the strong sense. Without a strong definition, education is reduced to morality, custom, policy or social adaptation.

Our house is burning. And other linear predictions.

‘Have you seen how much Giovannino has grown? If he carries on like this, by the time he’s twenty he’ll be at least three metres tall.’

How a civilisation capable of criticising itself comes into being

The thesis of this article is not about justice or anyone’s superiority over anyone else, but about the exceptional nature of the West (precisely because it departs from the norm among societies), which has been capable of building institutions devoted to fallibility: science, peer review, the separation of powers, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, adversarial proceedings, philosophical criticism, the university, constitutional revision and so on.