"" I prefer coffee, you prefer champagne. We have different tastes. Nothing more to add. " This is relativism, "says Isaiah Berlin, sharp thinker of the twentieth century. His perspective is different: it is what defines as pluralism, "or the idea that there are many different purposes that men can pursue while continuing to be fully men, capable of understanding each other and draw light from each on the other. " This book wants to follow the path traced by Berlin, confronting the idea of ​​incompleteness, concept recently developed by Salvatore Veca; at the end of the path, it will show how this idea can be a core value for pluralist conceptions of society.
Embrace the idea of ​​incompleteness means realizing that the world we live in Us and the Others is crossed by boundaries more or less defined and that can be seen from different perspectives, located, the result of a history that has shaped in this or that way. It means understanding that the policy, the tool that we use to manage our coexistence, which is not a sphere among many that structure human societies, a ball collides with the other, sometimes you leave incorporate, sometimes it same encompassing, in a process of re-defining continuous boundaries and areas of expertise.
Finally, the idea of ​​incompleteness can be a help in addressing the problems facing the plural society: if the plural means composed of multiple perspectives, how to bind together all the parts? How to live with difference, with the Other, with those who see the world in a completely different way from how we see it we? In addressing these questions, which recur now in all their urgency, the final proposal is to explore the idea of ​​incompleteness in its being opened: a genuine pluralist tolerance can only arise from a perspective that knows it is incomplete .