The occasion was the publication of the book by Bruno Meucci, "The inner work. Philosophy as self-care, "(Giuliano Ladolfi Publisher, 2013), which gave an opportunity to reflect on this issue. In his speech, Marco Vannini has highlighted as the great discomfort that you live in our day about the inner life has not found an effective therapy in psychology in turn "sick" of narcissism. Retracing the three sections of the text Meucci, Vannini started by the ideal of self-care in the Socratic philosophy and through the myth of Plato's cave, which calls for a real conversion, to turn to the value, to what matters : man, recalled Vannini through the lesson of St. Augustine, become what he loves. The project was completed with the confrontation with the philosophers of our time that Meucci developed in the latter part of his study, looking for a way of life where life is compared, creatively, in a piece of marble to sculpt with their own hands.
Carmelo Mezzasalma, stressed the power of philosophical thought, even in our contemporary liquid, just across the word 'work' that indicates a job, a reconstruction, similar to the work of the alchemists. Questioning by philosophers on their person develops the inner life, opens an inner space still free and not colonized by the media. The inner life, then, is the task of the human being and can not be intimate, but precisely because communication is the most mature fruit of philosophical conversation. In this sense, does not mean cure heal, but just take care! Finally, Maurizio Schöpflin illustrated the idea that the necklace Amethyst publisher Ladolfi, pursues, through the selection and publication of texts capable of reminding us that philosophy calls for the development of what is highest in us, to be happy . He closed the meeting Bruno Meucci stating, among other things, that philosophy helps us to defend our inner life, to take care, therefore, of ourselves, because no one can do it for us.
Trying to put together the great lesson of the classics and the survey tormented modernity, this meeting has been trying to shed some 'light on the eternal question about the man, his identity, his job and the way in which may worthily take care of themselves in the "valley of doing soul" (J. Keats) which is the world.
Lorenzo Artusi