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Practical Rationality in Political Contexts. Facing Diversity in Contemporary Multicultural Europe
Full text linkEurope, Philosophy and Cultural Diversity: An Introduction.
Full text linkMulticultural societies constitute a challenge for our institutions, for individual members of our communities, and for intermediate entities, such as families, schools, businesses, professional associations. Our present condition puts our practical reasons under considerable stress, so that we need to face this question: how can we best deploy our cognitive and volitional capacities, in order to overcome the challenges that we need to face? This essay tackles the question by relying on the authors' joint research on practical reason. The essays of the volume, it is argued, focus on various kinds of cultural diversity in Europe, both within its borders and in its international relations, and consider the philosophical significance that different disciplines (ranging from linguistics, to sociology, to literary criticism) may have in understanding how disagreement and agreement can be managed in our societies
Review of: Th. Sturm, Kant und die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Paderborn, Mentis Verlag, 2008
No full textReview of Thomas Sturm’s book 'Kant und die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
Recensione di: Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century, ed. by S. Clark e A. Rehding, Cambridge University Press, 2001
No full textCarattere e "naturale" nell'antropologia di Kant e Hegel
No full textWithin the flourishing anthropological literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the deepest kernel of the human character is often referred to as «natural aptitude» (das Naturell). Exemplified by several literary sources and by the so-called «natural logic» of the late German scholastic philosophy, this conceptual framework can be detected both in Kant’s Pragmatic anthropology and Hegel’s Philosophy of the subjective Spirit. In Kant’s view, the «natural disposition» of the human being is a quiet and compliant good-mindedness, which the strong-willed person turns into a positively good character. Though it ultimately depends on a free individual choice, the human character has an unfathomable «natural basis» also for Hegel. Far from indulging in a moralistic reprobation of the lowest instinctual core of the human character, both philosophers address the thorny question of how to match this natural disposition with the higher instances of a truly moral character
Brentano sullo statuto ontologico delle sensazioni
No full textBrentano’s views on the ontological status of sensations have been almost completely ignored in the scholarly debate on his ontology of the mind. This is rather unfortunate, because they shed light on the evolution of Brentano’s perspective. In his Psychology (1874), Brentano claimed that all intentional objects, sensible and intellectual, share the same ontological nature. Yet he later dismissed this whole doctrine and began to distinguish more rigorously between sensible and noetic conscience. I argue that this change was due to Brentano’s views about the neurophysiology of human sensibility. After a long confrontation with Fechner, Brentano eventually embraced Helmholtz’s idea of neural “specific energies” and shaped his newly developed doctrine of sensible qualities in accordance with it. Far from letting his ontology be driven by what he called “genetic psychology”, Brentano was nevertheless prudent enough to develop his theories so that any contradiction with ascertained scientific facts could be avoided
Filosofia e musica: bilanci, prospettive
No full textIl panorama editoriale odierno mostra ormai con chiarezza i segni di una rinascita e al tempo stesso di una profonda trasformazione della filosofia della musica. Il momento appare quindi particolarmente favorevole per una riconsiderazione della storia più recente di un problema che fin dall’antichità non ha mai smesso di offrire materia di riflessione al pensiero filosofico ai più alti livelli
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