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Ricordo di Franco Gnoli. Premessa
No full textIntroduzione agli atti della Giornata tenutasi in data 17 marzo 2023 all'Università degli Studi di Milano in ricordo di Franco Gnoli, a un anno e mezzo dalla scomparsa del Maestro
Animal Ethics and the Problem of Direct Conflict: Why Current Theories Can’t Offer Solutions
No full textABSTRACTContemporary theories on animal ethics, particularly utilitarian and deontological accounts, can provide clear answers to questions of how animals should be considered ethically when humans and animals have different interests at stake. However, both accounts are unable to provide solutions in cases where both parties have a similar basic interest at stake; for example in direct, unavoidable conflicts for the same food, land or resources, seen when elephants destroy crops, baboons raid farms etc. By exploring Singer’s utilitarian view and Regan’s deontological accounts in detail, I will demonstrate that these approaches cannot solve conflicts of this kind since both parties are weighted equally. This will serve to highlight the importance of reconceptualising animal ethics in terms of an ethically relevant quality that can be held in degrees, and that an individual can have more or less of
Farewell to Arms – Farewell in Arms: Depictions of Weapons on Stone and in Hellenistic Inscriptional Epigrams
Full text linkAbstract Through four case studies I discuss the importance and frequency of the appearance of weapons (an important element of epic imagery) in funerary poetry, and its relation to representations of arms on gravestones and monuments in the Hellenistic period, geographically ranging from Lycia and Caria to the Black Sea, from mainland Greece to the Aegean islands. One of the most common features of poetic epitaphs for soldiers (including citizens, mercenaries, and soldiers belonging to royal armies) is the celebration of the military valor (arete) of the deceased; on the other hand, except for the spear, weapons are not mentioned often in funerary poetry. When they are not mentioned in the epitaph, or when an epitaph is not present, weapons are sometimes represented on the funerary monument itself, in the form of reliefs or paintings, either in the context of a battle scene, or carried by the standing deceased, or simply as isolated objects, as symbols of his profession or social rank in life
X Seminario sulla ricerca empirica in educazione: «Il contributo dell’AI alla qualificazione dei processi di istruzione»
Full text link10TH SEMINAR ON EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN EDUCATION: «THE CONTRIBUTION OF AI TO THE QUALIFICATION OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES»AbstractThe 10th scientific Seminar, held in Rome on May 25th, was organized by the «Journal of Educational, Curltural and Psychological Studies» in collaboration with UniCamillus – International University of Health Sciences and investigated the contribution of AI to the educational-cultural qualification of education processes. After a few years of stopping seminar activities due to the pandemic emergency, it was decided to return to talking together about education, training, school and the chosen theme, namely the use of Artificial Intelligence, is currently at the center of interest scientific and beyond.
Educare alla cultura della pace. L’impegno del nuovo Parlamento europeo / Educating for a Culture of Peace. The Commitment of the New European Parliament
Full text linkLettera a un emeritus da Londinium. I sistemi di sigillazione epistolare e negoziale delle tabulae ceratae
Full text linkAbstractThe TLond. 20 analysis, consisting of the address of a letter from Londi-nium, allowed the author, on a paleographic basis, to reform the reading Aug(usti) emeritus into Ave emeritus, which led to a more precise understanding of the text. For this type of document, in addition to the address of the recipient of the letters, usually reported in the scriptura exterior of the tabula, further information was also provided, such as pro-fession, paternity and residence. In TLond. 20, in addition to specifying the qualification of emeritus of the recipient, the peculiar repetition of the epithet, connected to Ave, but unusually apparently expressed in the dative (emerito) rather than the vocative emerite, seems to be related to a use of the vernacular. Finally, from a careful analysis of the find, the recess on the margins of the right side of the instrumentum scriptorium can be correlated to a closing and opening system using bronze hinges. This system appears very different from that attested for the negotiation documents, in which the seals were placed in a sulcus that glued the linen string that tied tablets I and II, while tablet III acted as a cover to protect the seals. The more expensive and elaborate hinges of the tablets reserved for the epistles, however, are explained by the need to preserve their confidential content, often of a military nature
Non-anthropocentrism as Participation alongside Perspective: Indigenous Philosophers and Dynamics of Inter-species Kinship
Full text linkContemporary Western alternatives to anthropocentrism – such as sentientism or biocentrism – rely on the scope of human knowledge exceeding its realistic limitations. As a corollary, although these models continue to be helpful in discerning ethical conduct, additional resources are going to be required. Initially arguing from within a representationalist paradigm, this paper shows that besides our inability reliably to assess the capacities of non-human species, we have also yet to learn what other factors, besides capacity, may be relevant to a non-human’s moral considerability. Subsequently arguing from within a participationalist paradigm, this paper shows that we cannot preconceive all we may be in the process of co-creating. This leaves any model grounded solely in the already existing open to finding itself incapable of relating to the new. It is in the co-creativity of the latter that a potential starting point for resolution begins to emerge: drawing upon Indigenous conceptions of performative knowledge processes in non-objectifying relationality, this paper shows dynamics of inter-species kinship, at times partially traceable through evolutionary relationship, to be a source of non-propositional learning relevant to ethical concerns
Framing Diversity in Corporate Communication on Twitter and CSR Reports. A Corpus-Based Study
Full text linkAbstractNowadays, companies are required to produce annual reports on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and consider the promotion of diversity as one of their fundamental values, particularly in terms of reputation and image (Fuoli 2018; Maier and Ravazzani 2018). Given its importance, diversity is included in companies’ communication planning (Mundy 2015). The aim of this work is to explore how eleven companies (Amazon, Calvin Klein and Pfizer among others) frame diversity and talk about it on their Twitter (now X) profiles and CSR reports over a timespan of five years (2018-2022), filling a gap in the literature which, to date, has mainly focused on the study of companies’ websites rather than their social media channels. To do this, we analysed a corpus of tweets and reports to identify recurring patterns and phrases related to diversity and inclusion. The findings reveal disparities between the two communication channels, with an overall positive framing of diversity, although the term is mainly used in passive voice constructions which indicate that as a principle and value it is far from being considered established in its own right
Il tollere liberos nei testi giurisprudenziali
Full text linkAbstractA few remarkable passages of the Digest feature the expression tollere li-beros. This paper investigates such passages to understand whether they actually refer to the ancient gestum of the sublatio of the newborn by the pater
Proposte di intreccio tra natura e cultura nelle aree protette: il festival Musica in Quota
Full text linkAbstractProposals for Intertwining Nature and Culture in Protected Areas: the Musica in Quota FestivalIn a context where nature and culture always appear separate, this contribution aims to overcome this dichotomy, proposing a musical festival as an example. Musica in Quota takes place among mountains and protected areas of the Verbano Cusio Ossola province, in the northwest of Piedmont. In the various events of the traveling exhibition, nature becomes the theatre of musical performances. The particular attention to the environmental, social, and economic needs of the local context makes it a virtuous case of programming able to promote the reappropriation of protected spaces through sustainable and participatory cultural practices that translate into active conservation