“Coerenza e storia. La Mesopotamia nell’ottica storiografica di ‘Ordine e Storia’: Istituzioni politiche, trasmissione del pensiero e percezione dell’assoluto,”
in Giorgio Buccellati et al. (eds.), Prima della Filosofia,
Milano: V&P, pp. 113-124.
Darwin’s quotation at the beginning of this paper [see Darwin 1872, p. 425, the sentence concluding the entire book] well clarifies the topic of the contribution: the undeniable self-consciousness of each human being.
The relationships between human beings presents some characteristics which are investigated within these pages.
Paragraph 1 deals with ‘a bound of solidarity’ [for which see also Buccellati 2014], declining this concept by means of the so called ‘urban revolution’ or even by means of the previous, first agglomerations of men in groups (i.e. ‘villages’).
Paragraph 2 describes how the first phenomenon led to the creation of a ‘image of thought’, mostly throughout the mean of the scripture which is the “immagine visiva del pensiero già incarnato come parola” (p. 116) [‘the visual image of the thought already embodied as word’; English translation by M. De Pietri].
This thought led then (paragraph 3) to the ‘perception of the absolute’: “Alla reificazione del pensiero quale avviene nella scrittura corrisponde la reificazione della realtà quale avviene nel politeismo” (p. 117) [‘the reification of the thought throughout the scripture corresponds to the reification of the reality with the polytheism’; English translation by M. De Pietri]. The best outcome of the polytheism was this, indeed: “L’aver individuato la totale coerenza dei dati della realtà” (p. 118) [‘to have detected the whole coherence of the data of the reality’; English translation by M. De Pietri]. The paragraph continues in sketching out the major differences of polytheism with monotheism (for which, see in detail pp. 119-120; cf. also Buccellati 2014 and G. Buccellati 2012, “Quando in alto i cieli…”. La spiritualità mesopotamica a confronto con quella biblica, Milano: Jaca Book].
Paragraph 4 investigates the relationship between the binomial ‘order and history’, the latter seen as an ‘organic evolution’, implying different developments all connected to a general ‘sense of order and coherence’ in human evolution.
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