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Descartes nella riflessione politica di Simone Weil
Get PDFThe goal of this essay is to underline the specific, political significance of Descartes’ reception in the work of Simone Weil. This aspect has not yet been fully investigated by scholars. The function of Descartes, in Weil’s thought, is to provide a device of liberty facing the contradictions of Marxism and Leninism which lead to oppression and totalitarianis
Nietzsche online: A Critical Appraisal
Get PDFThe Nietzsche Online database gives access to the complete edition of the works and letters of Friedrich Nietzsche by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, together with virtually all of the publications that have been published by De Gruyter on Nietzsche’s works and reception. We are talking of more than 100,000 book pages. However, the research platform offers considerably more than the sum of its print content. In fact, electronic editions have themselves a pyramidal structure, whose apex is the reconstructed text, which is always arbitrary in some measure, just as it is arbitrary the notion of an intentio auctori
Vico oltre Babele? La diversità delle lingue nella Scienza Nuova, §§ 444-445
Get PDFThis paper investigates Giambattista Vico’s linguistic thought, focusing on the topic of the diversity of languages. It is argued that Vico’s position dismantled the traditional ideas that reduced the diversity of languages to a consequence of Babel as well as Scaliger’s and Sanchez’s conventionalist standpoints that recurred to a modified form of Aristotelism. Vico’s “natural” perspective is studied in the light of Epicurus’ theory of language origins, which not only provided a justification for the semantic differences underpinning human languages but also explained the inner relationship holding between mother-tongue(s), habits and nations. Finally, Vico’s concept of Providence, granting that an “ideal mental language” balances cultural differences and has them converge toward a universal ‘commonsense’, is discussed to illustrate the philosopher’s compromise between language naturalism and his theological (as well as anthropological) view of Human histor
Qu’est-ce que Kant doit être pour nous? Wundt et Külpe interprètes de l’Esthétique transcendantale
Get PDFTogether with other influential psychologists of the time, Wundt considers internal data as absolute evidence (unlike Kant), grounding psychology on this assumption. In opposition to his former mentor, Külpe aims at rehabilitating Kant’s transcendental aesthetics. Yet, he is far from embracing transcendentalism and rejects Kant’s skepticism as to the possibility of a scientific psychology. Nevertheless, Külpe believes that Kant is right in considering internal data as unreliable for scientific purposes: accordingly, psychology should share the same scientific methodology of any other scienc
La controversia idealismo-realismo (1907-1931). Breve storia concettuale di una contesa tra Husserl e gli allievi di Monaco e Gottinga
Get PDFStarting from two contradictory claims regarding whether realist phenomenologists accepted Husserl’s transcendental reduction, I will try to show that these ones are about two different points of view on Husserl’s idealism. The first one, which I call the epistemological one, refuses transcendental reduction because it limits the phenomenological inquiry; the second one, which I call the ontological one, accepts the reduction for the very opposite reason, but rejects the theory of the pure Ego since it is non-phenomenological. I will show that these two point of view arose in two different period of Husserl’s thought evolution and that they can live together, even though they are irreducible. In doing that I provide a brief history of the idealism-realism controversy, through which I aim at clarifying some crucial points of this histor
EAGLE: Europeana Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Making the Ancient Inscriptions Accessible
No full textEAGLE is a project whose principal aim is to bring together the most prominent European institutions and archives in the field of Classical Latin and Greek epigraphy in order to provide a single free user-friendly portal to the inscriptions of the Ancient World. Financed by the European Commission, EAGLE was born to endow Europeana, the European digital library, with a comprehensive collection of unique historical sources. EAGLE will thus provide access to the majority of the surviving inscriptions of the ancient Greco-Roman world – a massive resource and a veritable pillar of European culture, made accessible for the first time to everyone, from the curious to the scholar
Kant, Soemmerring and the Importance of the Sense of Hearing
Get PDFThe following essay takes its cue from the importance that Soemmerring attributes to the sense of hearing in the Über das Organ der Seele (1796), a text published with a comment by Kant. First, I point out that the idea of a primacy of the sense of hearing is shared by Soemmerring with Heinse, a famous writer of the time (and by Heinse with Herder). Second, I compare these ideas with Kant’s growing interest for the close connection between the sense of hearing, language and thought, giving due attention to his theses on deafness. Finally, I propose the hypothesis that not a late and tacit agreement with Herder, but Soemmerring’s statement that hearing is the most important of our senses, might be the reason for the strengthening of Kant’s conviction that “thinking is speaking and the latter is hearing”, testified by the Opus Postumu