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Appunti su coscienza e relazione
Full text linkMy paper focuses on some of the main topics of Carmelo Vigna’s philosophical work; firstly, the relational dimension of the personal substance tied to its consciousness, the transcendental feature of the human consciousness, its activation in the interpersonal relationship. Secondly, I examine – with special reference to the Hegelian Phenomenology – the physiological form of this relationship (i.e. the mutual recognition) and its fundamental pathological form (the form of the enslavement). Lastly, I analyze the different ways of the mutual recognitionby means of the “Golden Rule”
Oltre la "Ghigliottina di Hume"
Full text linkAfter having introduced some preliminary notions (including “good”, “obligation” etc.), this paper addresses the meaning and the structure of Hume’s Guillotine (GH). It distinguishes between GH1 (the prohibition of translating a normative sentence in a descriptive one) and GH2 (the prohibition of deriving normative conclusions from merely descriptive premises). Then it will investigate GH2 with respect to some formal languages and it will explain the possibility of introducing “bridge-principles” connecting the alethic domain to the deontic one. Moreover, it will call into question some traditional arguments introduced by scholars to overcome the two GH pillars and it will also offer more rigorous arguments for justifying the overcoming of GH. In particular, it will explore the nature of the link between “Ought” and “Is”. For this purpose, it drew attention to Hintikka’s “bridge.principle”, describing the obligation as a kind of necessity. More precisely, the proper necessity of obligation qualifies as the impossibility of providing a counter-example
Orientamenti preliminari
No full textIl breve testo è l'introduzione a una sezione monografica della Rivista, dedicata al tema: "Prospettive su natura umana e legge naturale". Il testo tratta della inevitabilile pertinenza dei temi in oggetto, anche nel panorama filosofico del Ventunesimo secolo
Una lettura filosofica del Canto XXV del Purgatorio.
No full textThis text deals with Statius’ embryological narration, contained in Canto XXV of Purgatorio. It offers a reconstruction of the entire development of this narration (from v. 37 to v. 108), in order to restore its overall sense. It then offers a concise comparison of the text of Purg., XXV, 37-78 with that – parallel to it – of Convivio, IV, 21, 2-5. Thirdly, it dwells on the crucial points of Purg., XXV, 37-78 and the probable sources Dante draws on there. Then, it recalls some divergent lines of interpretation that now traditionally concern him. Finally, with reference to the thought of Thomas Aquinas, it helps to clarify the philosophical content of that passage
A Reading of Pascal's Pari
Full text linkThe pari is one of the relevant themes of Pascal’s Pensées. This paper does not intend to reconstruct the history of criticism of the pascalian topic. It does three things: (1) it exposes analytically that topic in its own structure; (2) clarifies what its interlocutors and objectives are; (3) highlights its existential and pragmatic implications
I fondamenti dell'educazione secondo Antonio Rosmini
No full textThis contribution intends to propose the essential lines of Rosmini’s philosophy of education,
starting from the youthful essay Sull’unità dell’educazione, and linking it with Rosmini’s
mature works, in which the ontological theme becomes explicit. What gives unity to educational
work is - in fact - the ontological horizon, to whose infinite and mysterious character such work
introduces. The contribution also illustrates the political side of Rosminian conception of education,
and the identification of the subjects to which it belongs
Prefazione
No full textL'intervento valorizza il contributo nel suo intento propriamente teoretico: quello di evidenziare la imprescindibilità della figura del trascendentale nel dibattito sulle teorie degli insiemi e sulle relative aporie
Sulla complessità dell'essere umano. L'articolazione dell'uomo in Platone e in Ficino
No full textPlato’s conception of the human soul is three dimensional: reason (loghistikón), spirit (thymoeidés) and appetite (epithymetikón). Our text seeks to reconstruct the reasons, elements and modalities of this conception, with particular attention to his Republic, Phaedrus, Philebus and Timaeus; and looks to question the stereotypical reading of Plato that presents him as an anthropological dualist and an ethical intellectualist. In addition, we give specific consideration to the myth of the "winged chariot", which expresses the Platonic theory in allegorical terms. Furthermore, consideration is given to the persistent references made to the mathematical language of the Academy, which - according to Plato - can express in an encoded manner the relations interior to the human soul and the dialectic between the good and pleasure that typifies moral experience. Marsilio Ficino, a perceptive modern commentator on the Platonic dialogues (in particular, of the Phaedrus and the Philebus), offers us an original reading of the myth of the "winged chariot", inserting it within the framework of a metaphysics of creation, in which there is both a positive understanding of the infinite and the possibility of an otherworldly reconstitution of human body
Notes on the Human Difference
No full textThis paper should be conceived as a very general discussion on the topic of the human difference. What I am about to advance is not a standard theoretical proposal, since I draw from a (neo)classical background in a cultural context where the empiricist heritage appears to be more influent and widespread.
The fundamental theses of my paper are two. The first one is that what differentiates human beings from animals resides in the relation of the entire person to what I call transcendental infinity. The second one is that every reduction of the human being ultimately results in a contradiction.
In order to support these theses, I will first clarify the different meanings of the words ‘infinite’ and ‘infinity’, which I use here as synonyms. Secondly, I will attempt to explain how the reference to transcendental infinity gives an account of the specific mental, affective, and bodily life of the human being. Finally, I aim to point out the fundamental reason for the irreducibility of the human difference
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