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La storia dell'etica filosofica negli ultimi due secoli (review)Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 28 (3): 607. 2008.
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45Il senso dell'etica: Kant e la costruzione di una teoria moraleIl mulino. 2006.The book presents a reconstruction of the development of Kant’s ethical thought from the 1760s till the "Metaphysics of Morals" of 1797 with a focus on the evolution of Kant’s overall project in practical philosophy. The main steps in the development of his practical philosophy are interpreted as successive attempts to connect normative ethics with an innovative preliminary descriptive inquiry. The book reconstructs the different ways in which Kant focuses this plan, stressing both the unity and…Read more
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24The Meaning of the Critique of Practical Reason for Moral Beings: The “Doctrine of Method of Pure Practical Reason”In Andrews Reath & Jens Timmermann (eds.), Kant's Critique of Practical Reason: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. pp. 197-215. 2010.The chapter first discusses the general meaning of a 'doctrine of method' in Kant’s work, as well as the specific goals of the Doctrine of Method of the second Critique. The central section, then, focuses on the notion of 'receptivity to morality', which here has a central role and a quite distinct meaning. I argue that Kant’s main point in his account of how to 'make objective practical reason subjectively practical' (5:151) is that one ought to lead the individual agent to become aware of his …Read more
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16Fichte in Schulpforta (1774-1780). Kontext und DokumenteFrommann-Holzboog. 2007.In this work, Fichte's high school years in Schulpforta are reconstructed for the first time, building on sources never considered before and throwing new light on this first phase of his intellectual biography and on his reception of the work of important figures of the Enlightenment such as Lessing, Herder, Gottsched, Gellert, and Rosseau. – The volume also includes the most important contemporary documents on Schulpforta and Fichte's texts from those years. Among these, the most relevant is h…Read more
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3Le "Chartae Socraticae" di Shaftesbury (review)Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 7 (3): 696-697. 2011.
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Due introduzioni alla filosofia dell'epoca della Aufklärung (review)Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 7 (2): 434-436. 2011.
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33Kant: ragioni e limiti del costruttivismo moraleIn Carla Bagnoli (ed.), Che fare? Nuove prospettive filosofiche sull’azione, Carocci. pp. 101-128. 2013.
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30Etiche antiche, etiche moderne. Temi di discussione (edited book)Il Mulino. 2010.The volume contains 10 chapters on 5 main issues of philosophical ethics: Relative/Absolute, Natural/Normative, Value/Values, Reason/Passions, Commands/Counsels. Each issue is examined in two chapters, the first one dealing with ancient (or medieval) philosophical positions, and the second one dealing with modern or contemporary debates.
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147Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses (edited book)de Gruyter. 2013.The five-volume set Kant and Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense contains the proceedings of the Eleventh International Kant Congress, which took place in Pisa in 2010. The proceedings consist of 25 plenary talks and 341 papers selected by a team of international referees from over 700 submissions. The contributions span 14 sections: Kant’s Concept of Philosophy; Theory of Cognition and Logic; Ontology and Metaphysics; Ethics; Law and Justice; Religion and Theology; Aesthetics; Anthropology and P…Read more
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«Maestro e tribuno del popolo». Due nuove biografie per il bicentenario di KantStudi Kantiani 17 171-186. 2004.
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Una nuova dottrina dei doveri. Sull’etica della "Metafisica dei costumi" e il significato dei doveri verso se stessiIn Luca Fonnesu (ed.), Etica e mondo in Kant, Il Mulino. pp. 189-208. 2008.
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1The Form of Practical Knowledge. A Study of the Categorical Imperative (review)Studi Kantiani 23. 2010.
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La filosofia degli illuministi italiani (review)Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 28 (1): 179. 2008.
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17Filosofia critica e filosofia popolare nell'AufklärungRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 63 (1): 79-87. 2008.
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12Legge e obbligatorietà: la struttura dell’idea di autolegislazione moraleStudi Kantiani 26 55-70. 2013.The paper argues for distinguishing two aspects in Kant’s idea of self-legislation of the moral law: the immediate character (i.e., the practical necessity) of the law itself and the lawgiving function attributed to the rational will. I argue that the novelty of Kant’s thesis chiefly consists in the combination of the two aspects, and that this solves the alleged paradoxical character of the idea of self-legislation. As it grounds on the connection of a fundamental law with a lawgiving, Kant’s v…Read more
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Filosofia applicata: l’idea di Fichte per una nuova universitàIn Carla De Pascale (ed.), La civetta di Minerva. Studi di filosofia politica tra Kant e Hegel, Ets. pp. 165-195. 2007.
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48Kant-Lexikon (edited book)De Gruyter. 2015.Kant’s revolutionary new approach to philosophy was accompanied by the introduction of a largely novel terminology. With the Kant-Lexikon, a lexical reference gives the modern reader access to his work on the basis of present-day editions and takes into account 20th century and contemporary research and advances in lexicology. The Kant-Lexikon includes 2395 entries authored by 221 scholars.
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310Kant’s Idea of Human Dignity: Between Tradition and OriginalityKant Studien 106 (1): 97-106. 2015.This paper focuses on the relationship between Kant and the traditional view of dignity. I argue that some amendments to Sensen’s description of the traditional paradigm enable us to see more clearly both where Kant adheres to the latter and where his view is original. First, a consideration of Pufendorf’s use of dignity suggests (1) that, contrary to Sensen’s reconstruction, the traditional paradigm does not entail a connection between dignity and duties to oneself, and (2) that Pufendorf’s und…Read more
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160"Under the Guise of the Good": Kant and a Tenet of Moral RationalismIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 1705-1714. 2018.Both in historical debates and in recent discussions, the Guise of the Good Thesis represents a genuine dogma of rationalism in moral philosophy. Many influential commentators have maintained that Kant belongs in that camp, even that he “explicitly endorses” the Thesis. Attributing the Thesis to Kant, however, faces scarce textual support and amounts to a dubious understanding of the relationship of Kant’s moral philosophy to previous rationalist views. I suggest that, in Kant’s view, the Thesi…Read more
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248Kant and Feder on the Will, Happiness, and the Aim of Moral PhilosophyIn Corey W. Dyck & Falk Wunderlich (eds.), Kant and His German Contemporaries, Cambridge University Press. pp. 232-249. 2018.The contrast between Kant’s moral philosophy and Feder’s is not less crucial than the controversy caused by the Göttingen review of the first Critique. One of main targets of Kant’s moral philosophy was Feder’s view, which can be regarded as Kant's main competitor in the contemporary debate. I thus argue that the background provided by the conflict with Feder shows significant distinctive traits of Kant's view, with regard to three fundamental issues. First, I examine how the project of a pure m…Read more
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La posizione di Georg Friedrich Meier nel pensiero della Aufklärung (review)Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 28 (3): 594-597. 2008.
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35Gründlich zerstört oder gründlich gelesen? Eine Replik auf Brandts alternative Lesart des § 9 der TugendlehreKant Studien 102 (1): 113-119. 2011.In response to Reinhard Brandt's criticisms (Kant-Studien 101 (2020):377-379), we defend our the conjecture on the text of Kant's "Doctrine of Virtue", § 9 presented in "Zwei Konjekturvorschläge zur Tugendlehre, § 9" (Kant-Studien 101 (2010):247-252)
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PhD, 2004
Milano, Lombardia, Italy
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17th/18th Century Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
19th Century Ethics |
19th Century Philosophy |
History of Ethics, Misc |
Kant: Ethics |
Kantian Ethics |