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Affabilità, verità, eutrapelia. Le virtù della communicatio in alcuni commenti all’Etica nicomachea dei secoli XIII e XIV
Get PDFThis article looks at some of the medieval
comments of the 13th and 14th centuries (Albert the
Great, Thomas Aquinas, Gerald Odo, John Buridan) at the
book IV of Nicomachean Ethics where Aristotle discusses
three virtues (affabilitas, veritas, eutrapelia), which govern
the exchange of words and actions. The analysis of
the texts shows how the Aristotelian ethics of the social
word, based on the nature of man and able to identify
specific virtues and specific vices for each of the social
functions of words (transmitting ideas, manifesting and
sharing opinions, giving pleasure and confidence, consoling,
praising or reproaching, entertaining), have been for
medieval commentators an opportunity to reflect on the
role of language within the more general social exchange.
In the final part, the article also questions the interweaving
of the tradition of Aristotelian comments and medieval
literature on the good use of the word
«Parole est en mostrant ou pour monstrer quelle chose est conferente et utile et quelle chose est nuisible». Oresme e la parola dell’uomo civile
Get PDFThis essay aims to shed light upon one of the
main relationships between two texts written by Oresme:
the De Moneta and Le Livre de politiques. The significance
of the word («parole») was examined in the latter: a
faculty belonging only to the man who lives, communicates
and trades in the civitas; the man that has to order
things and actions in the sphere of expediens, i.e. what is
useful, or in the sphere of the nocivum, what is detrimental.
In Oresmian texts, this discursive faculty, that was already
examined by Albertus Magnus and Thomas of
Aquin, becomes directly analytical, taxonomical and provides
the ethical dimension to things and actions. In Le
Livre, this triple faculty belongs to the «parole»: the elementary
brick of the human discourse. The « homme
civile » alone is able to seize the meaning and the value of
the utilitas: what can be considered, or proven, useful,
proper and profitable. He is able to distinguish, along a
scale of equivalencies and balances, things and actions
that can be defined just or unjust, but only as a result of
the previous analytical path made by the «parole». After
this analysis the political function of money, established
in his oldest text, De moneta, appears strictly connected
with the political function of the «parole» defined in Le
livre
Historia como fantología: Vida onírica, cantos mortuorios y el deber para con los espectros en Bojayá, Chocó
Get PDFDo dreams take place in history? Or are they phenomena that take place outside history, on the margins of historical sense and truth? This paper has to do with dreams that take place in the space of the uncanny, where the familiar becomes menacing (according to Freud’s definition) and from out of which memories of death and violence haunt the present. These dreams constitute a singular history, a spectral history or hauntology, whose logic does not obey the chronological development of historical time, but the present’s indebtedness to justice and the remembrance of the dead. I develop this idea from my fieldwork in Bojayá, Chocó, in 2016 and 2017, with Grupo Cantadoras de Pogue[Group of female singers of Pogue], and the testimonies of Cira Pino, an alabadorato whom the art of singing was taught by the souls who visit her in dreams. Alabaosare funerary songs that guide the deceased to the land of their ancestors. After the massacre of Bojayá, perpetrated by the FARC guerrillas in the town of Bellavista in May 2, 2002, alabaoshave become songs of denunciation and resistance. This opens an unprecedented memory-work in Afro Colombian communities in Chocó, through which they return to the place of the souls to find it transformed into an ominous space, inhabited not only by tradition and their ancestors, but also by the broken souls and bodies of those that have died untimely. I conclude by exploring the ethical dimension of this spectral history and its relationship to justice. 
Graziella Federici Vescovini, Nicolas de Cues. L\u27homme, atome spirituel (Paris: Vrin 2016).
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Lenoni, adulatori, traditori e cattivi consiglieri. La parola e il crimen stellionatus
Get PDFThrough the use of juridical sources, in his
commentary on the Divine Comedy Pietro Alighieri analyzes
the episodes of Dante’ s work from a criminal perspective
and stresses the importance of the penal aspects
of Dante’ s Hell, for example the language crime, i.e the
crimes committed by uttering language: the panderism,
the perjury, the adulatio etc..
El Tratado de los oficios de Roma: léxico e instuticiones de la Antigua Roma en la Península Ibérica (siglo XV)
Get PDFIn this contribution is edited for the first time
the Tratado de los oficios de Roma (ca. 1440-1450), the
only known anonymous Castilian translation of the latin
text Officialium urbis Rome compendium (ca. 1425-
1430), by de jurist David Sottili. Its codicological context,
within the manuscript 10171 (Madrid, National Library of
Spain), from the library of the Marquis of Santillana, is
described. The spanish text is also studied in the cultural,
literary and political milieu of Castile ruled by King Juan
II
¿Qué hacer con los universalismo occidentales? Observaciones en torno al “giro decolonial”
Get PDFIn this paper I want to respond to certain tendency often articulated in decolonial critical studies that links any universalist claim to the ideology proper to the history of colonialisms and its pervasive effects in the present. I would like to contend this tendency and reivindicate the need for universality and universal claims, if the task of decolonizing modernity does not want to lose its political relevance. I will start by asking what does it mean to think identity exclusively from a particularist perspective and what are the political and philosophical consequences of such an attempt. I will then move on to explore and reivindicate the question of universality, differentiating it from what I call here, following Laclau, “universalisms”. This will allow me to finally articulate my position in relation to, but also as taking distance from, Dussel’s notion of “transmodernity”. My intention is ultimately to reclaim universality as a pre-requisite and condition of possibility for the articulation of any political emancipatory project. 
A. Caputo (A cura di), Rethinking the Nietzschean Concept of ‘Untimely’, Mimesis International, Milano-Udine 2018
Get PDFRethinking the Nietzschean Concept of ‘Untimely’ is an analysis of an unexplored territory of Nietzschean’s huge philosophical production. The book is focused on the concept of ‘untimely’, related to the four writings entitled Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen (Untimely Meditations). The main claim of the text is that the issue of ‘Untimely’ has been studied too little despite its considerable role in Nietsche’s thought. So, the “Rethinking” in the title is an attempt to think again the issue of ‘Untimely’, starting from Nietzsche himself - passing through his work - and analyzing all the features of this unspoken structure
Brunetto a Babele: l’animale politico e parlante sulla pianura del Senaar
No full textThe essay deals with the representation of
Babel in the Livres dou Tresor by Brunetto Latini (1260-
1266), and illustrates the way in which the biblical epic is
rewritten and partially overwritten by the topos of the political
and speaking animal, proper to classical political
thought. Indeed Brunetto’s Babel provides an early and
excellent example of the difficulty to articulate these two
visions of history and political-anthropological models, a
problem which rises in medieval western culture particularly
between the 13th and the 14th century. The historical
synthesis offered in the first book of the Tresor is traditional
only in appearance: in fact Brunetto distanced
himself from the medieval Latin and Romance traditions
because of the absence of any negative moral and theological
judgment about Nembroth. Not accidentally, the
other two mentions of the episode, in the third book, occupy
key-places in the general architecture of Brunetto’s
encyclopaedia: here the biblic epic is gradually bent on
the Ciceronian paradigm of institution of politics and
Babel becomes the place of « diversité », with no negative
connotation, of languages as well as of forms of government
The Role of Individualism and Selfishness in Rationalizing Decisions
No full textIn this paper, I propose that individualism and selfishness are embedded in every individual, and that their existence is needed to provide rationale for the actions of individuals. I argue that people are motivated by their targeted benefits as individuals, and rationalize their decisions to reach their individual targets using their selfishness in both individualists and collectivists cultures. As well, I propose that selfishness is good and is not a sin, and I introduce a new definition of selfishness. My approach and methodology in proposing my arguments depends on the conduct of thought experiments of the debated ideas, and on readers’ ability to undertake similar thought experiments and reach similar conclusions and understandings. I ask readers to conduct a mental experiment of the proposed ideas using the reasoning that I propose. I believe that thought experiments on individualism and selfishness and their role in the rationalization of human decisions could be easily conducted by all readers.
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