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76Introduction to Moral Heteronomy. History, Proposals, ArgumentsDialegesthai. Rivista Telematica di Filosofia 19 (Thematic issue). 2017.An introduction to how heteronomous views address the topic of moral autonomy. In the first section I provide a short history of the rise of the autonomy stance in meta ethics. Then I sketch the relationship between Kant and mainstream contemporary Kantians. I finally outline a summary of the papers in the special issue of Dialegesthai.
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38Mesta Panta Semeion. Plotinus, Leibniz and Berkeley on DeterminismIn Panayiota Vassilopoulou & Stephen R. L. Clark (eds.), Late antique epistemology: other ways to truth, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.Determinism is the view that any event is determined by previous events and the laws of nature. My claim is that Plotinus's, Leibniz's and Berkeley's rejection of determinism is structurally similar. Indeed, while determinism holds that phenomenal changes (ontologically) depend only on the way the laws of Nature apply to the previous conditions of the states of the world, the three philosophers all argues for the claim that the laws of Nature are not independent on the mind (the Hypostasis of So…Read more
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10Berkeley, Theology, and Bible ScholarshipIn Silvia Parigi (ed.), George Berkeley: Religion and Science in the Age of Enlightenment, Springer. 2010.My paper concerns Berkeley’s notion of theology. After brief considerations on the general attitude toward religion by Berkeley, I try to assess the immaterialistic approach to three main topics of theology: the ground of any theological knowledge, natural theology, revealed theology. My argument takes in consideration particularly Berkeley’s criticism of Scholasticism. My claim is the following: Berkeley holds that all men have an immediate experience of God’s presence, but this experience is n…Read more
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3Su una recente proposta di riforma religiosaGiornale di Metafisica 28 (3): 733-742. 2006.I take a survey of M.Vannini's views on authentic religious life, commenting on his theses. While I assent to most of his arguments, I reject some of his grounding claims.
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64My paper addresses the notion of moral responsibility in religious ethics. I begin with the outline of the doctrine of moral heteronomy. The scripture stories of the Tables of the Laws and the Holy Covenant provide the general pattern for heteronomic ethics. My claim is that heteronomic ethics transfers the responsibility for the action A an agent x is performing from x to the normative system commanding x to perform A. I then picture the architecture of the normative system of the Decalogue (Sy…Read more
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77Tradizioni religiose e diversitàEdizioni Fondazione Centro Studi Campostrini. 2016.Most literature on religious beliefs and disagreements among traditions focuses on a bit of mainstream assumptions: religions should be construed in substantive terms; religions are to be individuated by their core belief systems; adherents to a single tradition assent to the same belief system; religious beliefs have factual content; incompatible religious beliefs cannot be both true; and so on. In my work I question all these claims in order to defend a non kantian approach to deep pluralism.…Read more
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67Others matter. The failure of the autonomous approach to ethicsDialegesthai. Rivista Telematica di Filosofia 19 (Thematic Issue). 2017.The critical target of my paper is the normativist stance of Kantian meta ethics. After a very short introduction, I develop a characterization of contemporary mainstream Kantism as a conjunction of a normativist claim, a rationalist claim and a proceduralist claim. In the subsequent section I make the case against the normativist claim by drawing a counterexample, and defend the relevance of such counterexample as a reason that defeats the appeal of the Kantian approach to meta ethics. I finall…Read more
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25Considerazioni sull'enneade, III. 7 eternità e tempoGiornale di Metafisica 28 (1): 167-189. 2006.My paper is a philosophical comment on Plotinus' treatise "On Eternity and Time". My work is divided into three parts. In the first section I approach Plotinus' general argument for the dependency of time on eternity trying to demonstrate that it makes sense just within a Platonic framework. I argue that there are no evident reasons to assume the Platonic framework. Consequently, there are no evident reasons in support of Plotinus' argument. In the second section I focus on Plotinus' characteriz…Read more
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82Against Trinitarian Enthusiasm: The Approach of Relative Identity Logic to the TrinityReportata. Passato E Presente Della Teologia 13. 2015.The theorizing about the doctrine of the Trinity by contemporary analytic philosophers of religion has recently been imbued with an air of enthusiastic excitement and self-confidence. My intuition is that there’s room for saying something more in support to the embarrassment and puzzlement traditionally related to the predication of God’s onefoldness and threefoldness. My purpose is to deliver a general argument for (weak) trinitarian skepticism. My view is that the argument provides substantive…Read more
Daniele Bertini
University Of Rome 2, Tor Vergata
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University Of Rome 2, Tor VergataDipartimento Di Studi Letterari, Filosofici E Di Storia Dell'arteAssistant Professor (Part-time)
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Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
Coherentism |
Epistemic Relativism |
Empiricism |
Rationalism |
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