Flashes of a phenomenological philosophy. Comments to Giovanni Piana's work

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to clarify the meaning of philosophy according to the italian philosopher Giovanni Piana. Beyond being a search for something that one wants to know or wants to know how to do, philosophy is a theoretical activity that is born out of a state of confusion. Hence, the task of the philosopher is that of orienting himself in this confusion, trying to achieve clarity. Piana's methodological proposal then starts from a conceptual clarification that determines the work of the philosopher and for which the contribution of phenomenology becomes necessary. Right from these bases the philosophical proposal of Giovanni Piana, known as "phenomenological structuralism", is developed. Despite the fact that every act of experience has a peculiar way of structuring the material (perceptual, imaginative or of memory), Piana's approach puts perception as a fun-damental experience for a genetic analysis that reaches the conceptual clarification of the sphere of logic.