"Complex man" and politics (Gianni Vattimo, Edgar Morin)

The philosopher Gianni Vattimo, in a conversation with Edgar Morin, writes on ontological link between the complex thought and politics. Morin makes it clear that he wanted to found a political thought on some anthropological sources and says that we must return to the knowledge of man. The link between politics and anthropological sources, says Morin, is necessary because we have to change our political vision founded on a conception of man that includes only homo sapiens, homo faber and homo oecoenomicus . To transform politics, continues Morin, we need a change of thinking and, consequently, a change in the paradigms of thought that we have about the human and which limit our ideas and our actions. Morin says that homo sapiens is also homo demens: sapiens and demens are two polarities of the same being. Moreover, the political vision that merely consider the human only as homo faber is reductionist because homo is simultaneously also mithologicus or immaginarius. Finally, the last notion of man historically known, that of the homo oeconomicus, has brought politics to ignore the reality of homo ludicus.