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Welcome to WADING, a journey beyond appearances through philosophy and butoh dance. I’m your host, Damiano Fina, and in each episode we will wade through profound questions that challenge the limits of our perception.
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Philosophical Counselling and the Generation of Meaning About Death and Dying (opens the original)
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In this episode of WADING , I explore how philosophical counselling can help us generate meaning around death , dying and loss . Philosophy has confronted these questions since its very beginning. From the pre-Socratics to Socrates , it has always asked what it means to appear, disappear, live and die. Philosophical counselling brings these questions into a helping relationship based on dialogue, listening and reflection. Its aim is not to provide definitive answers, but to help a person recogni
We Inhabit the Houses of the Moon (opens the original)
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In this episode of WADING , I explore a radical question: is death truly part of reality, or does it belong to the way reality appears to us? Through the allegory of Janus , the Sun and the Moon, I imagine two different ways of understanding existence. On one side are the Houses of Night, where birth and death appear as real and existence unfolds between beginning and end. On the other are the Houses of Day, where everything is eternal and death can only appear as an illusion. Between these two
Death is Impossible! Witnessing Eternity with Emanuele Severino (opens the original)
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What if death doesn’t mean becoming nothing? In this episode of WADING , I explore the radical philosophy of Italian thinker Emanuele Severino and his claim that every being is eternal. If becoming means that something passes from being into nothingness, then becoming itself contains a contradiction. What disappears from our experience may not therefore be annihilated, but simply leave the horizon of appearance. Through philosophy , grief , personal memories, Chopin and butoh dance , I reflect o
Better Never to Have Been Born! Philosophy as Meditatio Mortis (opens the original)
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In this episode of WADING, I explore philosophy as meditatio mortis : an exercise in thinking about death in order to understand existence more deeply. Starting from the disturbing wisdom of Silenus — that it might have been better never to have been born — I move through Solon , Socrates , Epicurus , Prometheus , Heraclitus and Zen tradition to ask how human beings have tried to confront mortality. Is death simply something to fear and overcome? Or can it teach us something about life, birth an
Tracing the Remedy Against Grief (opens the original)
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In this episode of WADING, I continue my journey through grief by asking a question that has accompanied human beings for centuries: what remedy do we seek when we’re confronted with death? Grief cannot simply be hidden or annihilated. But it can be listened to. And when we listen to it, it can reveal itself as another face of love: the trace of a presence that continues through memory, even when someone is no longer with us in the same way. Starting from my personal experience of bereavement, I
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