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LUIGI ZANZI,
1938
LIFE
Luigi Zanzi was
born in Varese on the 20th of September 1938, he completed his studies
in Varese (Classical high school) and in a College in Pavia, graduated
in Law in 1960. He works as a lawyer, mainly in civil matters. He
teaches Theory of history since 1973 at the University of Literature
and Philosophy in Genova and since 1987 at the University of
Literature and Philosophy in Pavia. His political engagement has been
steady since 1964, with Altiero Spinelli, with the European Movement,
whose Central Committee he has been a member for a long time. Today he
is assessor at the Economic Program at Varese Municipality as an
indipendent. He is counsellor representing Pavia University at the
Center of Scientific Culture “Alessandro Volta”. He has been one of
the founders, then President and today Counsellor of the Institute
“Ludovico Geymonat”. He is vice-president of the International
Association for the history of the Alps, with its seat in Lucern.
THOUGHT
The field of
research of Luigi Zanzi can be divided in different parts:
a) a
methodological and epistemological part in which he has made
researches on the historiographical working and on the different
moments of history of the historical thought, from the XVI to the XX
century;
b) a part
dealing with the history of alpine civilization, particularly with
researches about alpine pastures high in the Central Alps (he has also
made, in this field, researches on the history of migrations in a
mountain environment);
c) a part
dealing with the history of nature, in which he has made works about
the history of “locally” natural evolution, addressing in particular
to the world of forests and mainly of alpine forests;
d) a part of
historical cosmology in which, in 1994, he has made researches on the
epistemological aspects of the cosmological history of the universe,
together with Ilya Prigogine.
Environmental
education and education to peace
Eco-philosophy and eco-history
§. 1
Eco-philosophy and peace theory.
The principle
of “responsibility” and its translation in an historical-programmed
idea of a principle of universal peace (new interpretation under an
eco-philosophical, eco-political, eco-historical point of view of I.
Kant thought on universal peace).
“Political
peace” and “environmental peace”.
§. 2 Peace with
the environment as a fundamental value for social peace.
Theory of
“imperialistic” peace and theory of “federalistic” peace.
Different
connections of these two models for peace with different strategies of
environmental practices.
Peace with the
environment as unique strategy in order to avoid conflicts due to
fights for environmental exploitation.
§. 3 Toward the
theory of a natural right for peace: environmental right and individual
right for peace.
Actual process
of “individual” idealization of some rights already known as universal
and belonging to the community.
The “natural
right” as keystone of the progressive transformation of legal systems.
From the
individual right for environment to the right for peace.
§. 4
Environmental education and peace education.
The problem of
man’s education seen under a naturalistic point of view.
Overcoming of
traditional ideas about education focused on human beings.
Overcoming of
concepts about man education in contrast with his or her natural
origin.
The problem of
the answer given by a natural tendency to peace within an idea of the
nature in evolution.
The education
to peace as a “progressive” remedy facing uncertainties, conflicts,
problems belonging to the naturalistic context (new interpretation of
the paradigmatic thought of G. Leopardi).
From the
education to the respect for environment, to peace education.
§. 5 Spiritual
values and environmental practices.
Culture of the
spirit and cultures of environmental practices.
From the
discovery of nature to the conscience of spirit.
The recognition
of the historical adventure of nature and the perspective of a “new
alliance” between man and nature (the naturalistic humanism of
I.Prigogine).
New
eco-philosophical interpretation of some religious values preached by
Buddhism and Christianity.
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