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Un articolo inedito di André Robinet, Le modele cybernétique dans la pensée politico-technique de G. W. Leibniz
Full text linkAn unpublished paper by André Robinet, which is dated February 5th, 2005 and focuses on Leibniz’s theory of law and justice, is edited and introduced by some preliminary remarks and clarifications. An explanation is proposed concerning Robinet’s claim according to which Leibniz’s use of the French noun ‘gubernation’ justifies speaking of a cybernetic model in his political and law philosophy. His 1994 book on Leibniz’s political thought, which is presupposed, has been consulted to clarify some aspects of Robinet’s article, which is devoid of footnotes. Some of the main texts by Leibniz on the subject have been identified, which are underlying in Robinet’s article
Visio Dei tra enochismo e gnosi eretica
Full text linkThe contribution aims at providing an in-depth analysis of the theological and narrative motif of the visio Dei in different gnostic works, composed both in Greek and in Coptic. Such a relevant theologoumenon is shared by the gnostic speculation and by the complex tradition gemming from the Enochic writings. This continuity is historically scrutinized and recognised as one of the most fundamental and crucial contribution for the formation of gnostic doctrine and identity
Descartes: New texts/new perspectives. Colloquio internazionale (Parigi, 19-20 aprile 2018)
Full text linkThis note describes the Conference organized in Paris at the Institut d’Études Avancées by Daniel Garber on 19-20 April 2018, to discuss recently discovered manuscript of an early version of the Regulae ad directionem ingenii, and of a manuscript copy of the Meditationes de prima philosophia in its pre-publication state. The discovery of these new manuscripts allows Cartesian scholars to discuss new perspectives of interpretation both of the establishment of the Cartesian method and of its relations to mathesis universalis and to metaphysics
Spatium entitativum. Leibniz’s Notes on Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld
Full text linkWith striking parallels to Leibniz’s later thought, Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld (1605-1655) describes the world as united by a nexus of universal harmony – an idea ultimately motivated by epistemological premises. The young Leibniz, accordingly, is an enthusiastic reader of Bisterfeld’s texts – while at the same time critically modifying his ideas: The universal harmony that epistemology postulates is, for Leibniz, not based on physical space and the mechanical interactions taking place there, but rather on the non‑physical spatium entitativum identified with God himself. Thus nuancing the relationship between metaphysics and physics, Leibniz anticipates a key problem of his later thought
Uneven Development and Weltanschauung. Remarks on Lukács’ Late Writings on Marxism
Full text linkFrom 1930 onwards, György Lukács considers ‘uneven development’ the typical relational form between economic progress and the corresponding evolution of other fields of human activity. In the early thirties Lukács focuses on the problem of elaborating an independent Marxist aesthetics, but then necessarily find himself having to deal with the general configuration of Marx’s alleged philosophy. The general theory illustrated in The Ontology of Social Being is where this philosophy, considered as a Weltanschauung, is given its final framework. His reflection on the ‘specificity’ of the aesthetic experience, as part of the broader framework of the main fields of art, science and everyday life, is the theoretical medium Lukács used in the fifties and sixties to fine-tune the need that had arisen decades earlier to attribute Marxism with genuine philosophical universality
An Historiographic Label, its Evidence, its Misunderstanding and its Future: Wittgensteinian Thomism
Full text linkThe aim of my paper is to explain the label Wittgensteinian Thomism and to show its relevance in the history of contemporary philosophy. I will proceed through three steps. First of all, I will take the birth of this label into consideration. In the second step I will study in detail Wittgenstein’s references to Aquinas. The fact that Wittgenstein possessed the first two volumes of the Summa Theologica is well-known, but the influence that Aquinas had on Wittgenstein must be clarified. I will conclude distinguishing two different levels in the use of the label Wittgensteinian Thomism: it can be appreciated as an historiographical or as a theoretical tool
Editing Leibniz in Turin. Convegno internazionale dedicato a Louis Dutens in occasione del 250° della pubblicazione dell’Opera Omnia di G. W. Leibniz
Full text linkThe note provides a report on the International Conference Editing Leibniz in Turin. Louis Dutens’ 1768 Grand Edition 250 Years After, which has been hold in Turin in December 2018. In the report are briefly illustrated the papers and the results of the discussion
L’allegoria in Leopardi: l’eco dantesca
Full text linkThis article reflect on the presence of Dante’s allegory in Leopardi’s works. In fact, in the Zibaldone Leopardi considers allegory in a similar way to Dante in the Convivio in defending the autonomy of literature from excesses of allegorical interpretation. Furthermore in the Canti and Operette Morali Leopardi rewrites several allegories taken from Dante’s Commedia and Vita Nova as the personification of Love. The last aim of the article is to suggest that Leopardi, inspired by ancient tradition, is actually a “deformed Dante” as Baudelaire
Justice between Mercy and Revenge in Sophocles’ Antigone and Plato’s Crito
Full text linkPlato’s Crito and Sophocles’ Antigone challenge the concept of justice as “benefitting friends and harming enemies”: justice stems from anger and harms the soul. The Antigone first illustrates how violence results from people’s actions when they see themselves as the agents of justice; second, it points to a possible reassessment of justice as benefitting all, regardless of what others do to you. In the Crito, Socrates shows how this new notion of justice, which is very similar to mercy, is consistent with the life of a good human being