Philosopher Manifesto

Locati’s philosophical commitment developed progressively from his youth onwards. It was born of the desire to continually improve his knowledge and led him to study and develop the existential theme of the coexistence between matter and spirit, between the law of the things of the world and the thoughts of the mind.

The answers of traditional philosophy had brought him no fulfilment, since the age-old opposition between idealism and positivism remained unresolved.

Only the providential intervention of Wittgenstein at the beginning of the twentieth century shook this historic confrontation, rightly introducing the third element “essential” to knowledge and to its transmission: the word of language.

He did so while leaving its image as that of a negative component of knowledge: the fleeting and contaminating element, because it carries personal interpretations. Locati’s journey through numerous writings led to the overcoming and the definition of this bearer of indeterminacy, so as then to press on in the search for logical and rigorous solutions grounded in and originating from this very fleetingness. His writings progressively developed an inquiry, all the way to pursuing a “real” reading of reality.

His conclusion comes with the enunciation of the “Theory of inequality”. A theory that risks unsettling at once not only philosophical thought but also scientific thought, and which arrives at the most opportune moment to justify in a rational way the ideological upheavals produced by the birth of the computer. It is a highly topical confirmation of the transition under way from Euclidean thought to post-Euclidean thought.

Indeed, in this 2019 writing Locati places even more decidedly the emphasis on post-Euclidean mathematics and geometry, carried forward from the end of the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century by pioneers such as Gauss, Lobachevsky, Riemann, Boole and others, right up to the twentieth century and modernity with Alan Turing, one of the principal fathers of the computer. The following year Locati publishes two further volumes: My Complete Thought, which draws up a summation of what he had elaborated theoretically up to that moment, and The Zero Point of Knowledge, a writing in which he places the emphasis on the role of logarithms, identifying the moment at which the human impulse arose to find coincidences and equalities, that is, that first instant in which our forebear, primitive man, lined up stones in sequence, from the smallest to the largest, then naming them 1, 2, 3 and so on. Finally, two further volumes see the light in 2021: Science or Philosophy? and The long stride of meditation (Does God exist?). In the first, besides summarising the previous positions, the author binds these two disciplines together indissolubly – beyond the traditional epistemic vision – giving rise to philo-science which, alone and unique, can interpret in a complete form the world that lies before us. At the basis of the second volume we find instead the question: “Why must we have two physics: one for the “normal” world, of everyday reality, and one for the atom?”, to which Locati responds by rewriting the nature of the laws that govern the infinitely small: the nucleus and the electron within the atom.