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Burckhardtsource.org: The Unpublished Correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt
Get PDFBurckhardsource.org is the semantic Digital Library designed and developed by EUROCORR ERC Advanced Grant Project, which hosts the on-going critical edition work on the correspondence of over 300 European intellectuals with the Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt over a period of more than half a century. Aim of this article is to outline an introduction to EUROCORR1 by describing content and tools of Burckhardtsource.org platform. 1 The ERC-project, Advanced Grant EUROCORR, Grant Agreement n. 249483, is coordinated by Maurizio Ghelardi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa). Ghelardi is member of the Board of Jacob Burckhardt Werke (Kritische Gesamtausgabe) since 1991 and associate editor of the critical edition of Jacob Burckhardt’s Work (Nachlass, herausgegeben zusammen mit S. Müller im Rahmen der neuen Gesamtausgabe von Werken und Nachlass, herausgegeben von der Jacob Burckhardt-Stiftung, Schwabe und C. H. Beck, Band 13, 16, 17). See also the Team page on http://www.burckhardtsource.org. For a detailed description of the project, the corpus of letters and its characteristics, the methodology and the scientific goals see S. Müller, F. Di Donato, “Burckhardtsource.org. A semantic digital edition of the correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt”, EVA-Berlin Conference Proceedings, 2013.
The Eternal Return: Genesis and Interpretation
Get PDFThis paper analyses firstly the presentation of the thought of the eternal return and its function within Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Then, to clarify and analyse the terms of the doctrine of Nietzsche as a theoretical and speculative hypothesis, it reconstructs some aspects of philosophical and cosmological debate in the second half of the nineteenth century. He discovered that Nietzsche interest for cosmological issues was sparked by reading in Sils-Maria, during the summer of 1881, a book by Otto Caspari. Nietzsche considered especially a passage where Caspari criticizes as the most great ethical perversion the ‘world process’ proposed by Eduard von Hartmann and the eternal recurrence of the same which necessarily involves it. In formulating the thought of the eternal return of the same, Nietzsche takes part in this cosmological debate using its terms and arguments and diverting them with a subtle parody
Le procès de Giordano Bruno par l’Inquisition
Get PDFThis article focuses on Giordano Bruno’s trial, pointing out the main legal and theological foundations of the Holy Office’s procedures, and the Pope’s role in Counterreformation’s Church and in the Inquisition as well. New light is thrown on the fact that the Pope, as he was the Praefectus (Chairman) of the tribunal, created during the trial a doctrinal assessment about some Bruno’s cosmological views. That assessment was unprecedented, because the Church had never considered before the infinity of worlds and the heliocentric theory as heretical. Reflecting opinions not yet shared by the theological schools, censors and inquisitors unanimously, the Pope created a new juridical truth. Nevertheless, this side of Bruno’s trial, a secondary one as it was, compared to the prevailing theological and metaphysical matters of the case (for instance, the concept of Holy Trinity, and the nature of human soul), was not evoked during Galileo’s trial, and seems that it did not constitute a precedent in the tribunal’s memory. New cosmological subjects will be perceived as embarrassing challenges by the Holy Office and the Roman Church even when they were later dropped by Galileo, in a very different way and context
‘Animale- macchina’ e ‘genio maligno’: due idee non cartesiane nell’Harmonie universelle di Mersenne
Get PDFIn this note I criticize Robert Lenoble’s thesis concerning the presence of beast-machine theory in Mersenne’s Harmonie universelle (1636-37). I claim that the paragraph on which Lenoble grounds his interpretation presents, instead, a central concept for the Cartesian studies, namely that of the ‘evil genius’. The evil genius argument is used by Mersenne in relation to the problem of perception and knowledge, moreover, it is used against skepticism before the publication of Descartes Discours de la méthod
Lucas Holstenius: un intellettuale europeo della prima età moderna, studioso di Altertumswissenschaft fra Umanesimo e Controriforma. Note introduttive alla Dissertatio de vita et scriptis Porphyrii philosophi (1630)
No full textThe paper reflects an interest in the famous German scholar Lukas Holste (Lucas Holstenius), introducing, and explaining synthetically, his Dissertatio de vita et scriptis Porphyrii philosophi (DVSP;1630), the first modern monograph about the ancient thinker Porphyry of Tirus in the context of the whole historically-reconstructed neo-platonic movement. It intends not to concentrate on biographical aspects, but rather to focus on Holstenius’ involvement with the science of antiquity, especially as applied to the study of the Greek philosophy. On this score Holstenius forms part of the intellectual inheritance from the humanist Renaissance that he embraced and developed during the age of the Catholic Counter-Reformation, adapting it accordingly for the new conditions, that is being conscious of the insuperable distance between antiquity and Christianity and without the Renaissance demand for the assimilation of paganism in the Respublica christiana. On the contrary, he elaborates his DVSP as being representative of theRépublique des Lettres by means of a rigorous historiographical method that draws on polyhistoric inspiration while leaving apologetic or confessional worries out of consideratio
'Conscientia' certissima scientia: alle origini di una definizione pseudo-ciceroniana
Get PDFIn several historical-philosophical dictionaries and monographs we can find the definition of conscientia as certissima scientia attributed to Cicero’s Pro Milone. However, in Cicero’s work there is no definition of that kind. This paper tries to investigate how it is possible that this definition was attribute to Cicero’s Pro Milone
Il monoteismo come problema. Il XXXVI colloquio internazionale 'Castelli'
Get PDFThis report provides a review of the XXXVI Colloquium Castelli, which took place at the Department of Philosophy of Sapienza – University of Rome, from the 5th to the 7th of January 2014. The theme of this year’s meeting, examined both in its philosophical and theological meaning, was “Monotheism as a problem”
Ancient ἐκδόσεις: Further Lexical Observations on Some Galen’s Texts
Get PDFI believe that it is necessary to re-examine some topics I already dealt with in my earlier researches on the practices of composing a literary work by classical authors, against the backdrop of the results of recent scholarship. I would like to go back to a distinction, which Galen drew on various occasions between works ‘for publication’ (πρὸς ἔκδοσιν) and works ‘not for publication’ (οὐ πρὸς ἔκδοσιν). Then, I will take into account the question of the so-called Attic (ἀττίκεια, ἀττικά) or Atticus’ editions (’Αττικιανά) of Plato; finally, I will discuss the meaning of the expression ‘the Plato of Panaetius’ (Πλάτων ὁ Παναιτίου) used by Galen in his On the Avoidance of Grief
Il concetto di 'consenso': una scala di transizioni dalla simpatia all'intesa ideale
Get PDFWhen we study the history of political philosophy, we find that the notion of ‘consent’ has been and is still crucial with respect to the definition of key concepts in almost all areas of inquiry: yet despite, or perhaps exactly because of its extension and centrality, the relevance of the concept of ‘consent’ is both persistent and elusive, and its meaning remains contested. As a consequence, the term is not included in some authoritative lexicons of political thought. This article aims to contribute to a survey of the uses philosophers have made of the concept of ‘consensus’ and related locutions, and suggests a strategy for delineating a semantic and theoretical field in which the main variants of meaning can be linked by gradual transitions on a single continuous scale, from pre-intentional sympathy to rationally motivated agreement under ideal conditions. The resulting configuration suggests that consent based on explicit arguments plays a limited role in regulating and coordinating human interactions