Salute individuale e collettiva come questione transdisciplinare: Edgar Morin e le odierne sfide della complessità

In July 2021 leading French philosopher, anthropologist, sociologist and trans-disciplinary thinker Edgar Morin turned 100.“Expecting the unexpected” is an important part of Morin’s philosophy: how can we cope with complexity and uncertainty? Scientific theories are not absolute. Science is much more complex than a catalogue of dogmas, it is a human reality that, like democracy, is founded on the debating of ideas, although accepted theories have a tendency to become dogmatized. Humans are physical, biological, psychological, cultural, social, historical beings: this complex unity has been disintegrated by education divided into disciplines. The predominance of fragmented learning makes us unable to connect parts and wholes, to recognize that the future of the human genre is now situated on a planetary scale. Morin’s epistemological work reminds us how that human beings have become interdependent by globalization. The health disaster caused by the coronavirus epidemic could be an opportunity to improve a form of a “regenerated humanism”.