Saramago mette Dio sotto processo

In his extraordinary The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, José Saramago transforms the figure of Jesus into a living philosophical question: can the sacred enter history without producing pain and domination? Not a polemic against faith, but a radical reflection on the relationship between God, power, innocence, and human suffering. One of the most profound and disturbing works of contemporary literature, capable of questioning believers and non-believers alike about the very meaning of absolute truth. In this new philosophical foray, we delve into one of the most controversial and intense novels of twentieth-century Europe: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. But the true focus of the lesson is not religious provocation. It is something much deeper: the relationship between absolute ideals and the concrete suffering of human beings. Saramago's Christ does not appear as a distant and perfectly glorious figure. He is a vulnerable man, pervaded by doubt, fear, desire, and the tragic responsibility of his own destiny. And above all, he is a man who gradually discovers the historical price of the sacred when it becomes power. Enormous questions emerge in the novel: • the problem of evil, • the guilt of omission, • violence committed in the name of truth, • the relationship between religion and domination, • the risk of all historical absolutism. Through the figure of Jesus, Saramago stages a philosophical examination of the relationship between sacredness and power, forcing us to ask questions that are still very timely: Can an absolute truth traverse history without demanding victims? And are we truly capable of preserving meaning without transforming it into violence? 💬 Key quote from the lesson “Perhaps the problem is not God. Perhaps the problem arises when men believe they possess God.” 🎧 Recommended Playlist Philosophy and Literature – Lessons and philosophical interpretations of the great masterpieces of world literature 👉    • FILOSOFIA E LETTERATURA - LEZIONI E INTERP...   Support the project 💳 Free donation to support the channel: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/confi... 📝 "Active student" subscription (preview lessons and reserved materials):    / @scorribandefilosofiche   🔔 Subscribe to the channel to not miss the next Philosophical Excursions:    / channel   📚 Books – Philosophical Excursions Paths of philosophy in practice between ancient and modern times Modern 👉 https://francescodipalo.wordpress.com... 📘 Philosophy in the Garden (Epicureanism), paper/ebook, YCP 2025 https://francescodipalo.wordpress.com... 📘 Free Within (Epictetus), paper/ebook, YCP 2024 https://francescodipalo.wordpress.com... 📘 The Crutch (Existential Novel), ebook, YCP 2023 https://francescodipalo.wordpress.com... 📘 Philosophy under the Portico (Stoicism), paper/ebook, YCP 2023 https://francescodipalo.wordpress.com... 🧭 Philosophical Counseling Individual counseling based on dialogue, aimed at those who wish to address existential or decision-making questions through the tools of the philosophical tradition. It is not a form of therapy. 👉 Information: https://francescodipalo.wordpress.com... 📚 Essential reading list for the lesson — The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Feltrinelli, Milan, various editions. — Blindness, Feltrinelli, Milan, various editions. — The Origins of Totalitarianism, Edizioni di Comunità, Turin, 1999. — Civilization and Its Discontents, Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, various editions. — Nausea, Einaudi, Turin, various editions. Cylinder Five and Cylinder Seven by Chris Zabriskie are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/