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Recensione a "Raffaella Gherardi, Politica, istituzioni, individui. Percorsi contemporanei", Carocci, Roma 2018.
No full textLa recensione offre una discussione del testo di Raffaella Gherardi, che include sette saggi
e un epilogo. Merito del testo è quello di elaborare scenari e vettori di riflessione capaci di
fornire un sostrato teorico ad un vasto assortimento di questioni pratiche e
normative che interessano la contemporaneità, e ciò attraverso un percorso
in cui ideali, problemi e nozioni trovano linfa vitale negli apporti di autori
appartenenti a differenti epoche storiche, dall’antichità ai giorni nostri
IL DEMONE DEL VIZIO: LA RESPONSABILITÀ INDIVIDUALE E IL SORGERE DEL TIRANNO NELL’ANTICHITÀ GRECA
No full textQuesto articolo divulgativo si propone di tracciare, attraverso una sommaria ricostruzione del concetto di tirannide nel mondo classico, alcune traiettorie di esplorazione dei rapporti tra individuo e comunità di appartenenza. Tenterò di rispondere in particolare ai seguenti interrogativi: 1) può una costituzione ideale, capace di veicolare pubblicamente attraverso i suoi princìpi fondazionali le coordinate per un carattere virtuoso, essere considerata come un potere puramente esterno al demone interiore di ciascuno dei suoi membri? 2) Una città presieduta da un potere permissivo, che lasci spazio al proliferare di desideri lascivi e pulsioni aggressive tra i suoi abitanti e che arrivi perfino ad incentivarne lo sviluppo, può sostituirsi alla responsabilità individuale e discolpare chiunque si astenga dal fornire a se stesso le possibilità di una narrazione differente di sé e dei propri poteri
Love of Beauty in Aristotle’s Politics. The case of Ostracism
No full textIn this paper I examine love of beauty (φιλοκαλία) in Aristotle’s thought, and suggest that he treats it as an emotion (πάθος) able to develop and strengthen good moral habits. I propose that Aristotle appeals to the love of beauty of some of his addressees – namely, those who are particularly sensitive to the “aesthetic” aspect of politics – to persuade them about the appropriateness of political measures which, if taken at a face value, might not appear ethically sound. After a preliminary discussion of the power of emotions to shape virtuous conditions of the soul, I briefly address the issue of the main properties of beauty: order, proportion and definiteness. Finally, I introduce the issue of ostracism discussed in Book III of the Politics and present it as a paradigmatic case of a political procedure which can be justified on grounds not only of common utility, but also of beauty
Eusebeia for the Gods as a Matter of Justice. Greek Popular Religion and Plato’s Euthyphro
No full textThis essay aims to analyse some uses of the word “eusebeia” in Greek classical antiquity, with a special focus on the way in which the corresponding notion helps to shape the goals and argumentative strategies of Plato’s Euthyphro. Rather than indicating sheer formal correctness in matters of religious cult (i.e. an attitude which seems to be better expressed by the adjective “hosios”), Socratic eusebeia represents an invitation to adopt a critical attitude in ethically religious controversies. What is more, eusebeia can be understood as a source of acts of justice and civic respect in the domain of human relationships
A Justification of War in Thomas More's Utopia. Between Machiavellian Realism and Erasmian Idealism.
No full textThis essay addresses some of the thoughts expressed by Thomas More on just war and interna-tional relationsin the light of Machiavellian realism and theethic-political idealism ascribed to Erasmus of Rotterdam. We propose that More’s idea of “just war” canbe interpreted as an ear-ly modern attempt to legitimise the paradigmatic role of State policies designed to export and impose certain political and cultural models on other States. That same idea might contextually contribute to qualify a paradigm of international relationswhich, by combining realism and ide-alism, preserves a distinctively ethical basis while justifying war as a strategy of reduction of moral evil
Departing from Perfect Goodness? The tetragonōs and the hugiēs man in Plato’s Protagoras. .
Full text linkSimonides’ well known Ode to Scopas, which Plato introduces in the Protagoras, provides fertile ground for a discussion of two different forms of human goodness: on the one hand, the excellence embodied by the perfectly good man (τετράγωνος ἀνήρ); on the other hand, a less perfect form of goodness, which is the one embodied by the “healthy man” (ὑγιὴς ἀνήρ). This essay will critically address the shift from perfect to imperfect goodness and its underlying reasons. More specifically, I will argue that the distinctive goodness of the “healthy man” can be identified with a form of “minimal political decency”. As such, this can be praised only in comparison to a condition of lawlessness
A Praise of The Philosophical Written Speech? Ethics and Philosophical Progression in Plato's Symposium
No full textPlato’s choice of the written dialogue as a suitable medium of philosophical
communication has received a vast amount of scholarly attention over the past four
decades, especially with regard to the nature of its specific contribution to our
understanding of his thought. An possible way of looking at Plato’s dialogues is to understand them as forms of
dialectical interaction whose protagonists are Plato’s written speeches and his readers.
A similar interpretive approach is premised on the assumption that written speeches
ought to be considered as alive interlocutors rather than as inanimate documents, and
that through them Plato invites the readers to critically engage with issues of high
philosophical import. In this chapter I shall adopt this approach as a guiding
framework for a reading of one specific dialogue: the Symposium. My most general
contention is that the dialogue at stake proves eminently suitable for shedding light on
Plato’s concern for the dialectic potentialities of the philosophical written speech
The Roots of Respect : A Historic-Philosophical Itinerary
Full text linkDespite the increasing concern for the issue of respect for persons displayed over the last decades by political philosophers, human-right thinkers, social and ethical theorists, a comprehensive treatment of the problem at stake from a historical-philosophical perspective is conspicuously absent. The present collection of essays aims to contribute to the fulfillment of this gap by offering a reconstruction of the seminal passages in the history of philosophy which testify to the evolution of the idea of respect for persons and the rich array of conceptual specifications that such an idea acquires across the centuries.
By analysis of pivotal texts of ancient and modern contemporary philosophy, the volume will try to offer an articulated account of respect which, starting from its primeval connection with the search for esteem and the pursuit of human excellence, gradually evolves towards the recognition of the political status of each citizen and culminates into a true politics of human rights.
Bringing together the expertise of classicists and scholars specialized in modern and contemporary philosophy, the volume is especially intended for scholars working in the fields of the history of philosophy, ethical and political theory
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