Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself. Gianni Vattimo More Quotes by Gianni Vattimo More Quotes From Gianni Vattimo Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'. Gianni Vattimo pirate data law I am a Christian, therefore I am a communist. Gianni Vattimo communist christian Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and tradition derives its importance from the fact that Being, as a horizon of disclosure in which things appear, can arise only as a trace of past words or as an announcement that has been handed down to us. Gianni Vattimo horizon facts past It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist Gianni Vattimo thanks atheist