GRICE E CARABELLESE: LA ROCCIA E LA SABBIA

 Carabellese contrasted the rock of concrete, temporal, plural, relational being in the light of which the problem of the origin, of the foundation, of validity cannot be given up, with the sand of historicist becoming, of the historicist succession of the facts in which law and value coincide with the succession itself. The metaphor of sand and rock used by the same Carabellese in his later writings is taken up by Semerari in the title of a book of 1982 dedicated to critical ontologism. This metaphor gives us a good idea of the fundamental theoretical instance relating to the problem of history. Such a theoretical instance is asserted by Carabellesian ontology in its opposition to historicism through the ontological recovery of time and of existence and by contrast as well with the interpretation, traceable in Heidegger, of time and existence as the outside, as the not of meta–temporal and meta–existential Being, that is, as its decayed phenomena21.