1. Lección del profesor Davide Martini
Liceo Petrarca
4N 15.04.2016
Proyecto eTwinning UBI SUNT. ALEGORÍAS EN LA LITERATURA
ESPAÑOLA Y EN LA HISTORIA DEL ARTE
SEIZE THE DAY, MAKE YOUR LIVES EXTRAORDINARY
«Dum loquimur fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero”. (Horace)
Some ideas around the concept of Carpe diem in philosophy.
Heraclitus: this philosppher is famous for the phanta rei “everything flows”
“aetas fugit”.
"Everything changes and nothing remains still... and... you cannot step twice into
the same stream”
Epicurus: the centre of his philosophy is pleasure (edonè) , but not to confuse
with sensual pleasure; the pleasure Epicurus talk about is to intend as absence
of pain, that's why to live present does not mean to indulge in revelry but to
reach pleasure of mind.
He suggested, anyway, to try to achieve the greatest amount of pleasure in
this life, because we don't konw about “future” life.
Augustine of Hippo: what then is time? If no one ask me, I know what it is. If
I wish to explain it to him who asks, I don't know. Time, properly, does not
exsist.
Nietzsche: Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept
that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-
similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space. Time is
viewed as being not linear but cyclical. So, every moment has a sense in itself.