Wandering and Distance
Far from being an archaic “residue” surviving a rational modernity based on moral (human rights) and scientific values, “dehumanization” necessarily follows the radicalization of the humanization process. This process can be ontologically understood as a never-seen distance between two spheres of subject, as an autonomous individual, and object, as a system of knowledge and activity. This distance between ideal and cognitive understanding of the human evolution is generating a metaphysical wandering, through an obvious misunderstanding of human nature, at the same time seen as founding the social order and as non-existent if unable to be transformed unlimitedly. On the contrary, recognition of the normative nature of social-historical activity, above all in cultures seen as concrete universals, allows the understanding of the objectification process, prior to the subject-object distinction, as mediation in any relationship to the world.