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176Formazione economico-socialeIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 4418. 2006.The unresolved dilemma of Marxian theory is whether the overall social constellation may legitimately be called 'mode of production' because mono-causal economic explanations are acceptable or whether there is instead a more complex causality at the level of the 'ökonomische Gesellschaftsformation', i.e. the social constellation as a whole.
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175La modernità si confessa (review)L'Indice Dei Libri Del Mese 1994 (7): 43. 1994.A discussion od Charles Taylor's 'Sources of the Self'
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173GEM Anscombe, Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 101 (4): 587-590. 2009.I discuss this collection of published and unpublished essays on religion and ethics by GEM Anscombe edited by Mary Geach and Luke Gormally. My main doubt concerns the criteria on which papers have been included in this volume. I argue that, while part of the material included typically belongs to a discussion between believers, some of these are good examples of applied ethics with no direct link with the Christian faith and addressed to a universal audience of reasonable partners of conversati…Read more
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173T Raffaelli, La Ricchezza delle nazioni di Adam Smith. Introduzione alla lettura (review)European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 9 (1): 148-149. 2002.
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172EquitàIn Giuseppe Zaccaria (ed.), Lessico della politica. Giuseppe Zaccaria (ed.), Edizioni Lavoro. pp. 230-238. 1987.A reconstruction of the history of a family of words, from ancient Greek and Hebrew to Modern languages, with an overview of one century discussion about justice, the separation of law and politics, and the ethical element in political theory.
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171T Magri, Contratto e convenzione. Razionalità, obbligo e imparzialità in Hobbes e Hume (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 87 (2): 364. 1995.The author examines Hobbes and Hume in the light of recent proposals of neo-Hobbesian political theories. Magri concludes that Hobbes and Hume's strategies would be plausible from the point of view of liberal thinking if they succeeded; the difficulty, however, is that both systems fail to overcome the barrier between individual interests and moral and political principles.
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171Antonio Genovesi, Lezioni di commercioIn Franco Volpi (ed.), Dizionario delle opere filosofiche, Bruno Mondadori. pp. 419. 2000.A discussion of the economic work of Genovesi, the first professor of political economy in Europe. Genovesi supports a physiocratic theory of value as the net produce of agricultural work; a theory of interest as the motive of human action, intermediate between the extreme poles of excessive self-love and benevolence; a doctrine of innate rights as a limit to the sovereign's action; a commercial policy that limits dependence on foreign countries. He also took a position in the eighteenth-century…Read more
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170G. E. M. Anscombe, “Human Life, Action and Ethics”, ed. by M. Geach & L. Gormally (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 100 (2-3). 2008.A short review of the collection of Anscombe's ethical essays edited by Mary Geach and Luke Gormally
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169CasisticaIn Virgilio Melchiorre, Guido Boffi, Eugenio Garin, Adriano Bausola, Enrico Berti, Francesca Castellani, Sergio Cremaschi, Carla Danani, Roberto Diodato, Sergio Galvan, Alessandro Ghisalberti, Giuseppe Grampa, Michele Lenoci, Roberto Maiocchi, Michele Marsonet, Emanuela Mora, Carlo Penco, Roberto Radice, Giovanni Reale, Andrea Salanti, Piero Stefani, Valerio Verra & Paolo Volonté (eds.), Enciclopedia della Filosofia e delle Scienze Umane. Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), De Agostini. pp. 144-145. 1996.A short reconstruction of the method of casuistry in Medieval and early Modern moral theology
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168Paley, WilliamIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 8245-8247. 2006.A presentation of the philosophical works of WIlliam Paley.
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166Analisti del linguaggio in cerca di una disciplina (review)Il Manifesto 11 (May 29): 4. 1992.A discussion of 'Introduzione alla filosofia analitica del linguaggio' edited by Marco Santambrogio
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165M Milgate & SC Stimson, Ricardian Politics (review)European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 1 (3): 642-643. 1994.The book is quite convincing as far as it argues more autonomy from Mill and a more pro-working-class picture than the received image of Ricardo allows for. A severe pitfall is having ignored the relevance of Unitarianism as a matrix of political radicalism. A related defect is not having exploited less obvious sources than those included in Sraffa’s edition.
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164Merchants, Master-Manufacturers and Greedy People (review)History of Economic Ideas 15 (2): 143-154. 2007.A discussion of McCloskey's argument for bourgeois virtue ethics in 'Bourgeois Virtues'. I criticise the opposition of Adam Smith's and Kant's ethics, arguing that Kant and Smith share much more than the author believes. I criticise the idea that what is most respectable in modern liberal-democratic societies is a gift of Capitalism, arguing that it is a gift of movements, associations, networks, and religious communities that strenuously resisted for a couple of centuries to 'Capitalism'.
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164Levi Mortera, Emanuele, Dugald Stewart (review)Rivista di Filosofia 189 (4). 2018.A review of Levi Mortera's monograph on Dugald Stewart's philosophy of mind
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162Robbins, LionelIn Russo A. (ed.), Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani. 2006.A short presentation of Lionel Robbin's work with special attention at its philosophical and methodological implications.
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162Bahya Ibn Paquda, I doveri del cuore (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 83 (1-2): 312-313. 1991.
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161Cristina Marras, Metaphora translata voce (review)Rivista di Filosofia 101 (3): 450-452. 2010.The theses in this book are: 1) the tension between the Leibnizian theory of the tropes and their use is resolved in a "pragmatic of discourse" that gives the metaphor a richer dimension than the theorized one, that is, that of "a mechanism capable of combining elements coming from different conceptual spaces into a new metaphorical conceptual space, 'shapeless' to which the metaphor itself provides an adequate language to describe and structure it"; 2) the role of metaphors is placed for Leibn…Read more
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161Who was the father of analytic ethic? George Edward Moore’s DNA testFelsefe Dusun 1 (1): 32-57. 2013.I argue that PE is more a patchwork of diverging contributions than a unitary work, not the paradigm of a new school in Ethics. I compare Rashdall’s almost contemporary ethical work, suggesting that the latter defends the same general claims differently, one that manages to pave decisive objections more plausibly. I end by suggesting that the emergence of Analytic Ethics was a more ambiguous phenomenon than the received view would make us believe and that the wheat (or some other gluten-free gra…Read more
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160Charles Taylor, Radici dell'io.In Franco Volpi (ed.), Dizionario delle opere filosofiche, Bruno Mondadori. pp. 1043. 2000.A short discussion of Charles Taylor's masterwork.
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158Società civileIn Giuseppe Zaccaria (ed.), Lessico della politica. Giuseppe Zaccaria (ed.), Edizioni Lavoro. pp. 579-586. 1987.A reconstruction of the history of the wording civil society and of the curious twist in its usage and meaning, highlighting why the term had an important role in Continental political thinking and was ignored until comparatively recently in Anglo-Saxon political discourse
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158Ronna Burger, Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates (review)Rivista di Filosofia 101 (1): 119-120. 2010.In order to understand the Gricean "logic of conversation" that underlies the Nicomachean Ethics, Burger believes it necessary to identify the audience to which the work is addressed: this is the audience of men and citizens who have received a good education, that is, have learned the virtues through habit, but have doubts about the content of the education received, that is, about the beautiful and the just. Aristotle proposes on the one hand to give them reasons to defend and justify the mora…Read more
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157Ordinamento del sapere, modelli metodologici ed economia politica in Adam SmithIn Riccardo Faucci, Michael Da Freeman, Letizia Gianformaggio, Vincenzo Polignano, Anna Li Doonni, Robertino Giringhelli, Gabriella Gioli, Maurizio Mori, Daniela Parisi Acquaviva, Luciano Avagliano, Anna Camaiti, Marco Bertozzi, Sergio Cremaschi, Gloria Vivenza, Cosimo Perrotta, Lilia Costabile & Roberto Petrini (eds.), Gli italiani e Bentham. Dalla "felicità pubblica" all'economia del benessere. Volume 1. Riccardo Faucci (ed.), Franco Angeli. pp. 153-163. 1981.A discussion, based on Pownall's reading of ‘The Wealth of Nations’, of the Newtonian heritage in Adam Smith's project of a moral science encompassing political economy as one of its sub-disciplines and refusing any essentialist grounding of the theory in ultimate characteristics of human nature.
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155Ricchezza (età moderna)In Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 9700-9703. 2006.A reconstruction on the evolution in the understanding of wealth in the political literature from the Renaissace to the eighteenth century
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155SalarioIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani. 2006.A reconstruction of the nineteenth-century debate on wages in relation to the issue of the absolute character of economics laws, to the issued of the ethical element in economics and their policy implications
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152L Dumont, 'From Mandeville to Marx' (review)Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 89 (2): 743-748. 1980.Alongside the aspects of interest in the history of ideas in general, this text is of great interest to the economist and the philosopher of economics. The parts on Smith and Marx are a demonstration of how it is possible to make a history of scientific thought that explains the incongruities of the history of thought in front of which Schumpeter stops: these incongruities cease to be mysterious, and indeed they acquire full meaning if we accept the idea of considering in scientific texts not on…Read more
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152Sviluppo economicoIn Virgilio Melchiorre (ed.), Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani. pp. 11253-11257. 2006.A discussion of the origins of the very notion of development, its role in eocnomic thoery, and its discussion in applied ethics
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151Review of Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Foundations of Economic Evolution (review)Journal of the History of Economic Thought 38 (1). 2015.A review of Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Foundations of Economic Evolution. A Treatise on the Natural Philosophy of Economics. I argue that the author's ultra-naturalist stance in epistemology lacks consistent justification
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151Sidgwick e il progetto di un’etica scientifica: risposte a Greco e PellegrinoEtica and Politica \ Ethics & Politics 8 (1): 1-4. 2006.I clarify that Sidgwick was not a moral relativist; on the contrary he was heavily conditioned by ethnocentric prejudice: I add that Sidgwick did not believe a reform of common-sense morality to be viable; on the contrary he concluded that it was impossible and, besides, that there were important utilitarian reasons against the viability of any reform strategy.
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150Il commercio, le passioni, la virtù. Discussioni su etica ed economia fra Seicento e SettecentoIn Mauro Magatti (ed.), La porta stretta. Etica ed economia negli anni '90, Franco Angeli. pp. 33-60. 1993.The chapter reconstructs the eighteenth-century discussion on commerce and virtue in the light of Hirschman's, Pocock's, Polanyi's, and Viner's interpretations of that discussion. The claims put forth are: the history of the emerging of modern market society has been heavily conditioned by a teleological and deterministic interpretation of history; the eighteenth-century discussion cannot be read neither in terms of ideologies nor in terms of the history of economic analysis; a 'strategic' read…Read more
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