Goodbye Severinus, philosopher of the eternal

(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 21 - "Approaching death is getting closer to joy, but I allude to overcoming any contradiction that runs through our life because we are constantly in imbalance and instability: reincarnation or resurrection does not await us, but something infinitely more". This is how Emanuele Severino, who died on 17 January in Brescia, often wrote and repeated in his lectures and meetings, he is only known today, who had turned 90 on 26 February 2019. A radical thought, his, which for the denial of becoming has led him to a conflict with the Catholic Church to the point that in 1968, 4 years after publishing 'Return to Parmenide', at his request a trial was instructed by the ex Sant The office, which declared its philosophy incompatible with Christianity. A thought that Severinus, considered one of the greatest philosophers, writers and intellectuals of the twentieth century, cultivated by referring, in addition to Parmenides, to Aristotle, Heraclitus, Hegel, Nietzsche, Leopardi. For the Brescia philosopher the West lives in nihilism, or in the belief that things, all things come out of nowhere and come back. In the numerous books published since the 1950s, Severino showed instead that everything, even the most insignificant things are eternal by necessity and the belief that all things come out of nowhere and return to them is "extreme folly". Man has always sought the remedy for terror before pain and death. He sought it with myth, lapoesia and religion and in this context he deepened the thought of Aeschylus but also of Giacomo Leopardi. (HANDLE).