Farewell to Ernesto Paolozzi: the memory of Sister Orsola in her aphorisms of freedom
A sharp, refined, ironic and never banal intellectual. By Ernesto Paolozzi, among the most important Italian scholars of liberal thought and Croce's thought in particular, who passed away suddenly today at the age of 67, there is a clear, sharp but above all unanimous memory among the professors of the Suor Orsola University Welcome of Naples. The oldest free Italian University was for over 30 years the privileged 'home' of his studies, his research and his teaching of History of Philosophy. Together with the Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies of which he was a member for many years and of the scientific committee and pillar of the Summer School of Higher Education "Ottavio Colecchi".
“There are no absolute principles, except the principle of freedom which, by its nature, does not admit absolutes”. One of his many aphorisms, also collected on his website www.ernestopaolozzi.it, was chosen by the Suor Orsola Benincasa University to remember the essence of his liberal thought through the University's social channels.
“Crociano’s thought was not only a mission of study and research for him, but also and above all an operational compass in his great commitment to civil and social life”. In the memory traced by Lucio d’Alessandro, Rector of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University, of Ernesto Paolozzi’s militant intellectual commitment, there is also his role as president of the Toponymy Commission of the Municipality of Naples, the same role that Benedetto Croce himself had held. A role in which Paolozzi, as d’Alessandro emphasizes, “had been particularly committed to maintaining the historical identity of the city of Naples also through toponymy”.
“Ernesto was an anti-dogmatic liberal. Unlike many self-styled liberals whose faith is never touched by doubts”. In the moving memory of the philosopher Gennaro Carillo, full professor of History of Political and Philosophical Thought at Suor Orsola, there is precisely one of the dominant traits of Paolozzi the man even before the scholar. One of the traits of the “philosopher alien to all those tics that too often make philosophy a pose and the philosopher a peacock that shows off”, as Carillo highlights.
At Suor Orsola, all the University employees also remember him with emotion. It was an unmissable Monday ritual, the chat about football with the 'philosopher'. Those passionate discussions about the fate of Napoli football had become over the years an almost fixed appointment in the Monday sports radio program "Albalunga" on Run Radio, the web radio of Suor Orsola. "His interventions on football - remembers the artistic director of Run Radio, Antonio D'Amore - became lessons of love towards our city, often mistreated but not for this second to none as he always insisted on reiterating".
“Uncertainty is on a psychological level the equivalent of freedom on a philosophical and ethical-political level. Learning to live in uncertainty means learning to live in freedom”. Ernesto would have remembered it today if someone had suddenly told him of the passing of a dear friend who was still young and with whom until two days earlier he had dreamed of returning to the soccer fields soon. On the green rectangle, Ernesto Paolozzi was a center forward. Of thought and maneuver also on the field. Often in a team with the youngest. Because the best lessons are transmitted in action.
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