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The isolation of the thinking I is a theme as old as modern philosophy. The tragic historical facts of the twentieth century, the flowering of existential problematics1 and the ever greater difficulty experienced by people in establishing relations and communicating with each other2 have turned solipsism into one of the burning problems of the twentieth century. There thus arises the need for rethinking the problem and overcoming it in the direction of what I should like to call an “ethic of aperture” that will see a possible “aperture” also towards the “divine” as a necessary passage or goal of an ethic that looks on the individual as a person. Phenomenology is a crucial moment for scientific work towards this goal; but this work must not remain exclusively absorbed “with itself” in the constitutive analysis of the I and the world, and must reflect in a special manner on the value of these experiences as privileged “apertures” towards the other understood as a social being. Making this attempt in the light of phenomenology, which seems to be the most solipsist of the philosophies, could at first sight seem to be an arduous task.3 But if “the I” and “the other” are and will always be two subjects bound to remain separate, and this one has to accept, one can nevertheless try to overcome the absolute strangeness of the other, and consequently the impossibility of communicating also by means of the road that is opened by empathy,and thus attaining a different social and communitarian dimension, also enlarging our knowledge, and turning the I, my very own “myself”, into an ethical reference or starting point towards “the other” and towards “God” or, in any case towards a dimension of greater communicability. |
