Pozzo is director of the History of Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy

To achieve common interests, we must first and foremost maintain our common home and common prosperity. Aristotle (384 BCE–322 BCE) and Confucius (551 BCE–479 BCE) have all left behind their unparalleled ideas, which could be exploited to help us propose sustainable development goals to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations.