Concerning Fanaticism in The Human Race by Massimo Fantini
Elijah is a promising young lawyer who loves his work and is confident in the human race’s potential.
His law firm’s senior partner gives him his first important assignment. Elijah will have to follow the case of Leonard, an elderly engineer who lives in Montepastore, a small village in the Bolognese Apennines (Italy).
Leonard’s question concerns the supplementary contribution that engineers enrolled in the professional register must pay to Inarcassa, the Engineers’ Pension Fund. At first, the case seems simple. It was the subject of a previous ruling by the Court of Cassation. However, Leonard is not satisfied with an institutional response. He wants to know why, what hides behind the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Leonard’s demands grow meeting after meeting, and the subject of the dispute widens to include ethical, religious, and historical concerns.
As in the previous manuscripts, questions about the human condition are central to this philosophical debate. In the absence of answers, what is the point of writing about anything else?