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The ways of life in classical political philosophy: papers of the 3rd meeting of the Collegium Politicum, Madrid
In: Studies in ancient philosophy 5
Materialism and Artefactuality. A Political Philosophy of the Topic ; Materialismo e artefattualità. Una filosofia politica della materia
In this paper, I analyze the idea of the world as the co-existence of humans and things. I argue that this co-existence should be considered from the conceptual perspective of responsibility. In the first two paragraphs, I argue that a system of artefacts always mediates human experience. In the third and fourth paragraphs, I synthetize two different philosophical approaches, namely the theory of artefacts and the materialistic method, which share the thesis of the performativity of artefacts in the constitution of human experience. In the conclusions, I show the political and ethical relevance of this possible material hermeneutics of the world. ; In questo saggio analizzo l'idea del mondo come coesistenza di umani e cose, e sostengo che tale coesistenza debba essere considerate sotto la lente concettuale della responsabilità. Nei primi due paragrafi sostengo che l'esperienza umana è sempre mediata da un sistema di artefatti. Nel terzo e nel quarto paragrafo sintetizzo due differenti approcci filosofici, ossia la teoria degli artefatti e il metodo materialista, i quali condividono la tesi della performatività degli artefatti nella costituzione dell'esperienza umana. Nelle conclusioni mostro la rilevanza etica e politica di questa possibile ermeneutica materiale del mondo. ; In questo saggio analizzo l'idea del mondo come coesistenza di umani e cose, e sostengo che tale coesistenza debba essere considerate sotto la lente concettuale della responsabilità. Nei primi due paragrafi sostengo che l'esperienza umana è sempre mediata da un sistema di artefatti. Nel terzo e nel quarto paragrafo sintetizzo due differenti approcci filosofici, ossia la teoria degli artefatti e il metodo materialista, i quali condividono la tesi della performatività degli artefatti nella costituzione dell'esperienza umana. Nelle conclusioni mostro la rilevanza etica e politica di questa possibile ermeneutica materiale del mondo.
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Conceptual History and Political Philosophy. Toward a Situated Analysis of Political Concepts in Latin America ; Storia concettuale e filosofia politica. Verso un'analisi situata dei concetti politici in America Latina
This article seeks to reflect on the methodological problem that dealing with political concepts with a particular historical and geographical frame entails. After stating how conceptual history, German in its origins, has given rise to different lines of thought throughout the Western World, especially in Europe, we explore how this conceptual approach can be used to address political concepts in Latin America from a philosophical-political perspective. ; Questo articolo si propone di discutere il problema metodologico dell'approccio ai concetti politici all'interno di un particolare contesto storico e geografico. A partire dal fatto che la storia concettuale, originariamente tedesca, ha dato origine a specifici percorsi in tutto il mondo occidentale, e soprattutto nel resto d'Europa, ci chiediamo come questo approccio concettuale possa essere utilizzato quando si affrontano i concetti politici in America Latina da una prospettiva filosofico-politica.
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Etica e politica nel pensiero di Dante
Throughout Dante's work, and especially in the Convivio and in the Monarchia, the interlacing of political philosophy and ethical reflection is guided essentially by a secular conception new to the medieval thought. Philosophy, in Dante's opinion, is not an ancilla theologiae , but a necessary and sufficient way to worldly happiness, which is one of the duo ultima of human life. For this very reason Dante chooses as vertex of the scientific pyramid ethics and not metaphysics, thus maintaining a pre - eminence of practical reason in apparent contrast to the traditional superiority of contemplation on action: he highlights what may be called a "useful" kind of science. Dante therefore does not simply create, as Ruedi Imbach states, a "philosophy for laymen", new interlocutors of philosophy; he actually creates a "secular philosophy" within the ambit of ethical and political reflection, with special reference to the problems which the following terms cause, problems which are treated with means of a strictly rational and syllogistic methodology: happiness, freedom, justice and power. The result of this study is a philosophical profile which perfectly justifies the intention expressed in the prologue to the Monarchia: not to re-propose already heard of notions, as in the Convivio, but to demonstrate intemptatae veritates. Within these new truths the most important one is the affirmation of the dualism of powers (secular and spiritual), as the metaphor of the "two suns" which is a clear example of the complex but steady balance of Dante's secular conception.
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The radical Machiavelli: politics, philosophy and language
In: Thinking in extremes v. 1
Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Filippo Del Lucchese , Fabio Frosini and Vittorio Morfino -- 1 Il genere e il tempo delle parole: dire la guerra nei testi machiavelliani /Jean-Louis Fournel -- 2 'Uno piccolo dono': A Software Tool for Comparing the First Edition of Machiavelli's The Prince to Its Sixteenth Century French Translations /Jean-Claude Zancarini -- 3 Of 'Extravagant' Writing: The Prince, Chapter IX /Romain Descendre -- 4 'Italia' come spazio politico in Machiavelli /Giorgio Inglese -- 5 Machiavelli the Tactician: Math, Graphs, and Knots in The Art of War /Gabriele Pedullà -- 6 Lucretian Naturalism and the Evolution of Machiavelli's Ethic /Alison Brown -- 7 Corpora Caeca: Discontinuous Sovereignty in The Prince /Jacques Lezra -- 8 The Five Theses of Machiavelli's 'Philosophy' /Vittorio Morfino -- 9 Tempo e politica: Una lettura materialista di Machiavelli /Sebastián Torres -- 10 Imitation and Animality: On the Relationship between Nature and History in Chapter XVIII of The Prince /Tania Rispoli -- 11 Prophetic Efficacy: The Relationship between Force and Belief /Thomas Berns -- 12 Prophecy, Education, and Necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between Politics and Religion /Fabio Frosini -- 13 'Uno Mero Esecutore': Moses, Fortuna, and Occasione in The Prince /Warren Montag -- 14 Machiavelli and the Republican Conception of Providence /Miguel Vatter -- 15 Machiavelli, Public Debt, and the Origin of Political Economy: An Introduction /Jérémie Barthas -- 16 Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising /Yves Winter -- 17 Machiavelli's Greek Tyrant as Republican Reformer /John P. McCormick -- 18 Essere Principe, Essere Populare: The Principle of Antagonism in Machiavelli's Epistemology /Etienne Balibar -- 19 The Different Faces of the People: On Machiavelli's Political Topography /Stefano Visentin -- 20 Machiavelli Was Not a Republicanist – Or Monarchist: On Louis Althusser's 'Aleatory' Interpretation of The Prince /Mikko Lahtinen -- 21 Lectures machiavéliennes d'Althusser /Mohamed Moulfi -- 22 Machiavelli after Althusser /Banu Bargu -- 23 Gramsci's Machiavellian Metaphor: Restaging The Prince /Peter D. Thomas -- Index /Filippo Del Lucchese , Fabio Frosini and Vittorio Morfino.
L'immaginazione politica tra la caverna platonica e il Paese di Cuccagna: la lezione di Max Weber sulla possibilità di critica delle azioni politiche
Not everyone would agree with Norberto Bobbio that Max Weber is a classic in political philosophy. Assuming that the "ethical neutrality" in sociology and economics involves Weber's dismissal of classical philosophical questions concerning the good society and the best form of government, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate that Weber's call for coherence and decency – beyond the distinction of the ethic of conviction (Gesinnungsethik) and the ethic of responsibility (Verantwortungsethik) – is still relevant for political philosophy and philosophers who reflect on the relations between ethics and politics.
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Straus in Italia
In: Il politico: rivista italiana di scienze politiche ; rivista quardrimestrale, Band 71, Heft 1, S. 46-85
ISSN: 0032-325X
This article is the considerably extended version of a paper originally presented at the Conference "Leo Strauss: l'uomo, il suo pensiero e la politica globale contemporanea" ('Leo Strauss: the man, his thinking, & contemporary global politics,' Centro Studi Americani, Rome, May 24-25, 2005). It presents a survey of Leo Strauss' reception in Italian philosophical & political culture, particularly focusing on the increasing interest in his thinking. In the first part, the earliest (and in some cases definitely negative) articles & commentaries of the fifties are taken under consideration, by authors such as Norberto Bobbio, Francesco Carnelutti, Mario Corsi, Bruno Leoni, Francesco Mercadante, Arnaldo Momigliano, Pietro Piovani, & Pietro Rossi, at the aim to explain why Strauss' political philosophy was not able to arouse interest enough until the eighties. Following a similar path, in the second part I try to explain the reasons of this later shifting of interest by me ans analyzing some of the most significant writings of the period. The considered works, articles & reviews end up by giving a detailed evidence concerning the Italian interpretations of Strauss' thinking, & the publishing success of his works, an issue on which Francesco Mercadante's Appendix specifically focuses. Adapted from the source document.
Spinoza e l'altra modernità: desiderio, immanenza, politica
This is a preface to introduce the contributions gathered in this special issue on Spinoza. Those articles are the outcome of a call for papers that attempted to identify the specific influence in philosophy of the so called "Spinoza renaissance". A period during which, besides a renovated and for many reasons unexpected interest in the study of Spinoza's concepts, there also was the strong necessity of rethinking Marxism through a thought grounded on immanence. In fact, Spinoza started to become a prism to read how philosophy could avoid, on the one hand, political immobility and, on the other hand, the vacuum panlogism of a depleted dialectic. This text stresses the specificity of every single author's point of view in this fundamental step in the construction of Contemporary French Philosophy.
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Leopardi e la lingua italiana tra tradizione e modernità
Leopardi and the Italian language between tradition and modernity. The essay aims to illustrate the Leopardi's ideas on the crisis of the Italian language and culture of the early nineteenth century, marked by an intellectual provincialism that did not allow it to participate adequately in the development of the sciences and philosophy that characterized Europe 18th century. The lucid and disenchanted criticism of the problems affecting Italy of the Restoration is reconstructed: the gap between spoken and written language, between literature and science and between high culture and popular culture, the lack of civic sense and social cohesion, the scarce development of public opinion, cultural backwardness, lack of modernization of the language. Leopardi's critical position also has political and social significance and presents elements of evident relevance which are still of great interest to the readers of the 21st century.
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HEGEL PRECURSORE DELLA SOCIOLOGIA?
The paper discusses the philosophical perspective developed by Giuseppe Duso in his latest book, Libertà e costituzione in Hegel. Taking distance from some recent interpretations of Hegel that see in his Philosophy of Law a prefiguration of social theory and sociology, Duso shows the internal need for a dialectical reading of Hegelian thought, as the only condition enabling us to grasp its critical dimension, in particular with regard to the cen-tral concepts and main institutions of modernity, as well as its irreducible nature both to normative political philosophy and to socio-historical empirical sciences. In this framework, the essay focuses on the analysis of the two principal issues in which the Hegelian challenge launched by Duso comes to light: the epistemological primacy of philosophy for an understanding of the reality of human relations and the ontological privilege of a differently conceived State as the level in which the socio-political totality constituted by such relations actually emerges and from which the full achievement of modern autonomy becomes properly thinkable. Addressing the question of democracy, understood as a form of political socie-ty taken in a historical process of self-transformation, the essay then tries to measure the strength and the limits of Hegel's political philosophy, which finally appears as an alternative to the social sciences.
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Diritto, eticità e Stato in Hegel / Right, Ethicity and State in Hegel
The aim of this article is to give an account of Hegel's conception of right as a mutual implication of ethical and political life against the backdrop of the modern theories of right, based on the construction of a sovereign will authorized by the procedure of representation and on the notion of a threefold division of the powers of the State. After having clarified Hegel's definition of State as the actuality of the ethical Idea, I will provide a stepwise reconstruction of the inner logic of the constitution (Verfassung), as it is articulated in its three main moments: the power of the monarch (singularity), the civil society (particularity), and the legislative power (universality). Specifically, I will argue that, from the Outlines of the Philosophy of Right (1820) to the Enciclopedia of 1827 and 1830, passing through the course of 1824/25, Hegel's texts show the discontinuous development of a broad and original notion of government (Regierung), which, in the §541 of the Enciclopedia of 1830, culminates in the identification of government with the political State. Thus, the traditional distinction of powers ends up being transformed into the articulation of three ruling agencies, which are actively present in every sphere of the constitution, without, however, pretending to reduce or eliminate any of them.
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Jean Elizabeth Hampton
Jean Hampton (1954-1996) was an influential voice in the landscape of US Philosophy of the second half of the 20th century. The majority of her writings falls within the sphere of Political Philosophy, although her interests ranged from Ethics to the Philosophy of Law, from the Rational Choice Theory to the History of Modern Philosophy and Feminism. In this context, I will analyse Hampton's contractarianism and her view of Liberal Feminism. ; Jean Hampton (1954-1996) è stata una voce influente nel panorama filosofico statunitense della seconda metà del Novecento. La maggioranza dei suoi scritti ricade nell'ambito della filosofia politica, anche se gli interessi della pensatrice spaziarono dall'etica alla filosofia del diritto, dalla teoria della scelta razionale alla storia della filosofia moderna e al femminismo. In questo profilo si approfondisce la sua teoria contrattualistica e la sua proposta di femminismo liberal.
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Un bilancio degli studi su Cattaneo da Gobetti a Bobbio
In: Il politico: rivista italiana di scienze politiche ; rivista quardrimestrale, Band 67, Heft 1, S. 5-54
ISSN: 0032-325X
Rüdiger Voigt, Denken in Widersprüchen. Carl Schmitt wider den Zeitgeist, Nomos, 2015, pp. 330, € 59, ISBN 9783848718757
Analisi critica dell'interpretazione di Ruediger Voigt del pensiero politico-giuridico di Carl Schmitt
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