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265MEL Guidi, Il sovrano e l’imprenditore. Utilitarismo ed economia politica in Jeremy Bentham (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 84 (1): 192-193. 1992.
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126Un Whig scettico? (review)L'Indice Dei Libri Del Mese 9 (October): 49-50. 1992.A discussion of Donald Winch's 'Adam Smith's Politics'.
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190Analisti 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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197P Werhane, Adam Smith's Legacy for Modern Capitalism (review)Quaderni di Storia dell'Economia Politica 10 (3): 187-189. 1992.First, the book does not have an original thesis. The thesisthe author wants to argue is that Smith is different from his current caricature, a legacy of his nineteenth-century image, according to which he would argue that: i) man is a maximizer of utility; ii) man is ordinarily moved by a narrow selfish interest, or at least is indifferent to the interests of others; iii) human beings are social atoms; iv) a perfectly competitive market is morally a free zone (pp. 4-5). The author recognizes th…Read more
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149M Passerin d’Entreves, Modernity, Justice and Community (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 83 (1-2): 313-314. 1991.
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259Malthus, l'utilitarismo teologico e il baule (review)Storia Del Pensiero Economico 3 (2). 2006.I discuss Malthus, Thomas Robert "The unpublished papers in the collection of Kanto Gakuen University", Pullen, John; Parry, Trevor Hughes (eds). I argue that the theological dimension in Malthus’s overall project may be stressed in the light of some of the original materials published here for the first time.
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363Sentimentalismo, consequenzialismo, etica laica (review)Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 9 (1): 255-270. 2002.I suggest that Kantian ethics, that is, the ethics of the mature Kant, that of Thomas Nagel, Karl-Otto Apel and Onora O'Neill, is not the caricature of an "engineering" approach in normative ethics that Lecaldano wants to fight in his war on deontological ethics. The ethics of Kant and the Neokantians can be for a consequentialist ethic a more fearsome and interesting adversary than such targets as "common-sense morality", non-existent "dogmatic intuitionism" invented by Sidgwick, non-existent …Read more
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215AE Galeotti, La tolleranza. Una proposta pluralista (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 89 (2-3): 493-495. 1997.
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192T 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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153DS Katz, Sabbath and Sectarianism in Seventeenth-Century England (review)Cristianesimo Nella Storia 12 (2): 442-443. 1991.
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192Bahya Ibn Paquda, I doveri del cuore (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 83 (1-2): 312-313. 1991.
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145E Ripepe, I conti col marxismo (review)Il Progetto 8 (48): 108. 1988.This is a collection of essays that all appeared in various Italian academic journals in the late seventies, aimed at tackling what we then used to call the " Crisis of Marxism". The reason of interest of these essays is the attitude taken by the author, who does not want to be neither that of the refugees from Marxism, who talk about something else, neither that of those who continue "to call themselves Marxists while ignoring the thousand reasons for doubt".
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322S Moravia, L’enigma della mente (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 80 (2): 298-300. 1988.
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165T Raffaelli, Filosofia sociale e metodo della scienza economica (review)Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 90 (3): 429-431. 1982.
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187La 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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133JE Meade, Libertà, eguaglianza ed efficienza (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 88 (1): 176. 1996.
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127S PETRUCCIANI, Etica dell'argomentazione (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 81 (1): 173-174. 1989.A brief presentation and discussion of Stefano Petrucciani's book on Apel's ethics.
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186T 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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244K.-O. Apel, Discorso, verità, responsabilità, a cura di V. Marzocchi (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 90 (1\2): 317-318. 1998.
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439A Ferrara, Comunitarismo e liberalismo (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 87 (4): 670-671. 1995.This anthology makes it possible to follow the lines of a 20-year debate between liberal and communitarian theories. The extensive introductory essay provides the reader with a broad overview. The anthological section includes a significant selection of what this debate has produced. The choice includes essays by Michael Sandel, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Charles Larmore, Kenneth Baynes, Ronald Dworkin, and Philip Selznick aimed at addressing the philosophical issues of the debate: the …Read more
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150Paolo Rossi (preface), I newtonianesimi del Settecento (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 77 (4): 676-677. 1985.
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161D. MacRae jr, The Social Function of Social Science (review)Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 90 (3): 423-426. 1982.The thesis that gives the discourse its characteristic liberal twist is that of the possibility not just of arguing on values in principle but of effective communication about values between different social subjects, instead of, for example, mere compromise between opposing interests that are unable to understand each other's reasons or imposition of one interest on another. From this thesis derives the possibility of the proposal of combining "science" and "ethics".
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167Laura Snyder, Reforming philosophy (review)Rivista di Filosofia 100 (2): 324-325. 2009.In this book the analysis of the relationship between Whewell and Mill is extended from the theme of induction, the topic the author starts with, to the comparison between the two projects of an overall reform of knowledge. These programmes announce themselves to the general public as proclamations of war for or against the academic, political and religious establishment; however, when viewed from the inside, they more or less consciously share very similar objectives. This applies both to the …Read more
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159Clotilde Calabi, Passioni e ragioni. Un itinerario nella filosofia della psicologia, (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 89 (4). 1997.A review of Calabi's work on the emotions. The author chooses to remain neutral with respect to the theoretical options currently adopted in the philosophy of mind: reductionism and functionalism. This choice makes it easier to stress the intentional dimension of emotions and to shed light on the bodily dimension of the emotional life.
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278Paul Ricoeur, Linguaggio e filosofia (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 88 (3). 1996.A review of a collection of papers by Paul Ricoeur edited by Domenico Jervolino. The collection highlights Ricoeur's journey from the reflexive philosophy to analytic philosophy through hermeneutics
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134Jurgen Habermas, Fatti e norme (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 91 (1): 142-150. 1999.The evolution of Habermas follows that of Rawls in Political Liberalism, where the principles of justice are traced back to a historical background and no longer derived from an original position as in A Theory of Justice; and even Rawls, curiously enough, while he made his own the criticism in a broad sense Hegelian, of opponents such as Walzer,continued not to recognize the debt he now owed them. Appropriations of the opponents' objections, withdrawals disguised as victories, ad hoc distincti…Read more
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