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Coscienza dell'ordine e ordine della coscienza. Il pensiero di Frederick Denison Maurice
No full textConscience and authority, religion and freedom, renewal and tradition: some of the main questions raised by Frederick Denison Maurice (1805 - 1872) are still at the centre of the debate on philosophy and anthropology, ethics and politics. Maurice, professor of theology and moral philosophy in Cambridge and in London, focuses his reflections on the concepts of conscience, social order and divine order, dealing with some of the most significant thinkers of the time, such as J. Bentham, A. Comte, J.S. Mill, H. Mansel and J.H. Newman. After having outlined the formative years of Maurice, the book analyzes his writings, showing how the nature and the dynamics of conscience are at the core of the philosophical, religious and social issues considered by Maurice in a deeply critical perspective on philosophical attitudes such as rationalism, subjectivism, skepticism and modern empiricism
Alle radici di «Sources of the Self»: per quale storia dell’identità moderna?
No full textThis article is intended to be a first step within a long term project dedicated to Charles Taylor’s volume Sources of the Self. The Making of the Modern Identity(1989). In particular I focus on the method adopted by Taylor in his studies concerning the making of modern identity. In order to reach this aim I consider in particular two essays: Philosophy and its History (1984) and Modernity and the
Rise of the Public Sphere (1993). From this analysis (which also focuses on Taylor’s concept of practices) it emerges that according to Taylor, in order to write a history of modern identity, a constant reference to moral sources, to the visions of
the good articulated during that time cannot be avoided
Recensione di: H. Dreyfus - C. Taylor, 'Retrieving Realism', Harvard University Press, Cam-bridge Ma - London 2015. Un volume di pp. 171
No full textThe volume, co-authored by C. Taylor and H. Dreyfus, wants to challenge the dominant epistemic view of knowledge as mediational. Overcoming the narrowness of cartesianism (also in its contemporary versions) the two authors argue for a 'contact' theory by retrieving realism in epistemology as well as within the political debate on multiculturalism. The review critically considers their arguments focusing on their phenomenological analysis of human experience and on their hermeneutic interpretation
Cécile Laborde, "Liberalism’s Religion".
No full textAll'interno di questa recensione viene sviluppata una riflessione critica circa la proposta, formulata da C. Laborde all'interno di "Liberalism's Religion", di attuare un 'secolarismo universale minimale' al fine di superare i limiti di un paradigma filosofico-politico rigidamente liberale
Development as Human Flourishing and Mutual Care: The Role of Accompanying
No full textThis contribution will focus on development from an anthropological and moral point of view. Development concerns human flourishing, which cannot take place apart from friendship, understood as love for common goods. Relationships of accompanying incarnate a specific form of friendship
with ‘significant others’ able to recognize our inner value, to activate our deep desires and to enhance a practice of freedom as the capacity to recognize and reach the good. Development requires the presence of ‘networks of giving and receiving’ in which human beings, at different
stages of development, take care of each other according to their resources, talents and skills. The social sciences therefore need to be informed by a relational anthropology rooted – rather than within individualistic and atomistic anthropologies – in common identities called ‘we-identities’.
The latter are not based on contingent, public or convergent goods but on common goods that make that original unity (‘we’) something undecomposabl
John Milbank: la vita come dono e perdono
No full textAccording to John Milbank (who often compares his views on the topic of gift with those of JL Marion and J. Derrida) the gift, as such, cannot be identified with a pure donation, with a pure "data", dissociated from eros and from agape. In this article I want to analyzes J. Milbank's philosophy of gift, also in relation to the contemporary debate
Review of David L. Schindler, L’ordine dell’amore. Le società occidentali e la memoria di Dio,tr it. di F. Giardini, pref. di J. Lynch, Lindau, Torino 2011
No full textIn this volume Schindler argues that the proper ontology of the human being is that of the “being-as-gift,” that generates the “being-as-gratitude”. From this perspective, richness comes to consist in partaking in “reality-as-gift”: all the aspects of economy (production, exchange, etc.) need to be intrinsically informed by this view and not simply “directed” from the outside by a certain philosophical or cultural perspective. I have analysed the contents of the book in relation to the contemporary debate on the same topics
“Dialectics had given way to life”: Rethinking Public Space Beyond the Ethics of Control
No full textThis contribution intends to put forward some critical reflections aimed towards the rethinking of public space as a space of encounter and reasonable dialogue, contrary to the tendency propogated by the debates that stimulate many western democracies, in which – in order to guarantee a peaceful coexistence between the people who foster different cultural and religious perspectives among themselves – an ethics of control as well as that which Charles Taylor defines as “code fetishism” are appealed to. The cultural challenge that we are up against is recognizing the centrality of the search for fulfillment in the public sphere: this is at the base of a new form of being, which is likewise capable of regenerating sociopolitical community
Persona, libertà, storia. Studio su Lord Acton
No full textOn the background of the philosophical, political and religious debates typical of the Victorian age, Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902) emerges as a major figure, but not easy to interpret.This volume is an attempt to describe in a unitary way his human and intellectual identity. In the first part the book analyzes his education and his Catholic liberalism. In the second part the book considers the theoretical core of his thought and his remarks on history and on historical knowledge, considering in particular notions such as individual, power and freedom, tradition and authority, society and state, nationality and nationalism. These notions are rooted in a reflection on conscience, understood as the manifestation of the objectivity of truth and goodness in the human subject o and thus as the primary factor in building society and history
'Could it turn out that no one has ever believed anything?’. Cronaca del convegno ‘The Soul’ (St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, 28 giugno-1 luglio 2013) e alcune osservazioni critiche
No full textThe aim of this contribution consists in presenting a review of the conference ‘The Soul’ (Oxford, 28 June - 1 July 2013). I have considered the main arguments presented during the conference trying to relate them to the contemporary debate on this topic. My final argument is that only if we consider the human being as a whole (where the soul is the form of the body) we will be able to overcome modern subjectivism and objectivism
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