Pier Aldo Rovatti

thumb|Pier Aldo Rovatti in 2008 q:it:Pier Aldo Rovatti (1942) is an Italian philosopher. Quotes It is a matter of [...] shifting the focus of knowledge towards what I would call an ethical emphasis: the subject is the subject of life, behaviour, moral feelings – and here the “subject” should also be understood in a passive sense, whereby the self experiences sensations, actions and feelings for which it is not itself responsible, which occur within it and belong to it but are not originated by it, to which it is subject, in fact. So perhaps “active” and “passive” are no longer opposed as we are accustomed to thinking, and the subject-passivity is that paradoxical subject that withdraws but continues to be the intrusive yet necessary tenant [...]. Gianni Vattimo, Filosofia al presente: conversazioni con Francesco Barone, Remo Bodei, Italo Mancini, Vittorio Mathieu, Mario Perniola, Emanuele Severino, Carlo Sini, Garzanti, Milano, 1990, p. 115. ISBN 88-11-65871-3 See also Gianni Vattimo Category:1942 births Category:Living people Category:Philosophers from Italy