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CO CCIA -G O D OY Our planet is a complex interaction of different life forms, in which human beings are just one among many other species. Awareness about this condition is the basis of Emanuele Coccia's thought, one of the most influential philosophers today. In this interview, he presents his ideas regarding our coexistence, mainly with non-animal living beings: plants, trees, or even viruses. jg: In the Chilean context, there is a humanistic approach that is still very strong in philosophy. The more materialist philosophy is not very present. Can you briefly mention something about that, just to contextualize your line of philosophical development?Ec: I can speak about my last book that came out in France a few months ago, called Métamorphoses, which is a reflection about the transformation from caterpillars into butterflies. This experience is very interesting to me from a speculative point of view, because there are two bodies -the caterpillar's and the butterfly's -which have nothing to do with each other, anatomically or ecologically speaking, in the sense that they are two different forms, that they don't have the same morphological structure; but they also don't share anything from the moral perspective. The caterpillar spends his or her days just eating, as if nature were a huge McDonald's, while the butterfly is mating all the time, so they have a different ethos, different moral or ethical identities. And then they also live in two different worlds, because the caterpillar lives on the ground and the butterfly is living in the air. This fact is interesting coexistence between diffeRent sPecies: Emanuele Coccia in conversation with Jorge Godoy

Nothing is more false than the image of Dante as an isolated genius standing out against his epoch. On the contrary he belongs to a very characteristic generation of italian intellectuals: laymen, often active in more than one domain, practicing abundantly poetic expression, engaged in political action, these scholar-citizens share equally a strong historical conscience. Their inventivity is manifested in philosophy, in medecine and in law, as well as in literary expression. Aside from these endogenous factors, a key to this phenomenon is linked to the active reception of the naturalistic knowledge elaborated in Paris, which is read in Italy outside of the control of theologians. The parallel journeys of a dozen uncommon personalities show the necessity of enlarging the habitual frames of medieval intellectual history.

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