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Umberto Galimberti - In dialogue with Plato on the things of love Eros and Thanatos - 2021 Rocca S. GIorgio, Orzinuovi (BS) Young people, even if they don't always know it, are sick. And not because of the usual existential crises that dot youth, but because a disturbing guest, nihilism, wanders among them, penetrates their feelings, confuses their thoughts, erases perspectives and horizons, weakens their soul, saddens their passions making them bloodless. Families are alarmed, schools no longer know what to do, only the market is interested in them to lead them on the paths of entertainment and consumption, where what is consumed is their own life, which is no longer able to project itself into a future capable of glimpsing some promise. It goes without saying that if the discomfort is not of the single individual, but the individual is only the victim of a widespread lack of perspectives and projects, if not of senses and emotional ties, in which our way of living is particularly distinguished, if it does not have a psychological but a cultural origin, the remedies developed by our culture appear ineffective, both in the religious version because God is truly dead, and in the enlightened version because it does not seem that reason is today the regulator of relationships between men, if not in that reduced formula of "instrumental reason" that guarantees technical progress, but not an expansion of the horizon of meaning due to the absence of thought and the aridity of feeling. Is there a way out? Can we throw out the disturbing guest? Yes, if we know how to teach young people the "art of living", as the Greeks said, which consists in recognizing one's own abilities and in making them explicit and seeing them flourish according to measure. If through nihilism, young people, adequately supported, were able to take this first step capable of making them curious and fall in love with themselves, the “disturbing guest” would not have passed in vain. Umberto Galimberti: http://bit.ly/3GMoVRU filosofilungologlio.it: http://bit.ly/3vCWXTO our Festival: http://bit.ly/3GCzIPP #filosofilungologlio #lamaratonadelpensiero #umbertogalimberti #erosethanatos #festival #filosofia #saperaude