De interpretatione recta - Focus on reading the texts, leaving the interpreters aside

I recommend to everyone, though I acknowledge this is nothing new, to begin reading philosophers or poets directly from their original texts, completely ignoring the interpreters (or rather, the interpretants) of these authors. Interpreters represent the worst possible perspective one could choose when accessing an author.

A simple observation suffices: when these interpreters step outside their area of expertise, they often offer the most significant interpretive errors in matters of politics, society, and geopolitics. If they are unreliable in one domain, how can they be credible in another? They may be scholars, but they are not capable of penetrating the world’s true essence. They may serve as “historians of” a subject, but they often fail to grasp the underlying truth.

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Fasting to reconnect your "Self" to your body

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Guardando l'Amore di una madre con le sue figlie

Siete fatte della stessa pasta Di stesso sangue e spirito apposta Create - e vivete il mondo unite. Solo voi vostra lingua capite. Io curioso vi guardo lontano. Altro universo vivo io e so invano di non essere voi e mi stupisco, ma la materia vostra oh capisco! E' fatta di altra tessitura, la mia invece è sfilacciatura, e in altro spazio e tempo ascoso sto relegato triste, invidioso.

Fabrizio Ulivieri

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