I problemi della guerra e le vie della pace

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I problemi della guerra e le vie della pace is a university booklet of the philosopher Norberto Bobbio's lessons famous for the three images that he gives about the conditions of the human being in the era of thermonuclear weapons.

1. An open bottle with a fly flying in it:
2. The net with a fish still alive in it:
3. the maze in which a person tries to escape.

Some people behave like the fly because one day at random they will find the way out. Some others behave like the trapped fish: the more they move the more they get trapped. Some others behave like those lost in a maze: they can try to escape using their mind faculties.