In his book Il canone minore Rocco Ronchi excludes the perspective of finitude, contingency and transcendence that would manifest themselves in the anthropological figure of desire. Howe-ver, if the field of immanence related to the dimension of transcendence (Other, subject, contin-gency, desire) is cut off, the risk is that of a drift towards a realism. More precisely, it is a realism ending up in a coincidence with a vitalism or a philosophy of nature which denies relief to the ethical dimension