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The famous kantian question, " In what shall we place our hopes ", seems to be eclipsed by the question whether it is licit to cherish hopes at all , as though hope itself was a regressive mockery. Here is a brief quote from the Italian philosopher Berio: “Today that men have become more harmful beings than ever, highly incapable of adequately estimating the combined result of their actions and other people’s actions, with the effective risk to alter delicate equilibriums still in part unknown, today that everyone contributes to the degradation of the atmosphere and the exploitation of the resources, responsibility, caution, reflection constitutes a obligation which is required and unavoidable. This also because the destructive potentialities of the human specie swell in the very moment its ability to forecast disasters and take control over self-perpetuation increases. Paradoxicalally, the threat of the catastrophe derives exactly from the triumph of technology. And it is just because the sphere of the unexpected effects of every action is immeasurable , that personal liability must proportionally extend itself, before it is too late. (…) Each of us has in fact has a collective responsibility (…) ( La filosofia del Novecento, Donzelli 1997)