Filosofo italiano gianni vattimo biography

For a long time we have talked of "pensiero debole" (weak thought), that is of a particular type of knowing characterized by a profound rethinking of all the notions that served as foundations of western civilization in every field of culture.

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According to this view the traditional values became such only because of precise historical conditions that do not exists anymore; for this reason their pretension of truth must reach a state of crisis. At the root of the "pensiero debole" (weak thought) lies the idea that the thought is not capable to know the state of being and therefore it cannot even determine values which are objective and valid for all men.

The major interpreter of this nature of the problem is Vattimo. According to him, the very task of philosophy is not that of self-interrogation of the truth, but that of bringing to its extreme consequences the epochal crisis which expressed itself through the process of secularization.

Vattimo takes to deep levels the attack to th