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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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209Stuart Newton Hampshire, Innocenza e esperienza. Un'etica del conflitto (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 88 (1): 174-175. 1996.Hampshire addresses the problem of pluralism, i.e. conflicts, characteristic of modern societies, which arise from the presence of conflicting moral interests and duties. The solution is a procedural notion of justice, seen as the precondition for respect for the different positive conceptions of the good. A salient feature of the book is the combination of a form of a 'weak' Aristotelianism, similar to that of Bernard Williams and far away from that of MacIntyre, with the theme of the relations…Read more
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570Sidgwick, Henry, I metodi dell'etica, ed. by Maurizio Mori. (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 88 (1): 175-176. 1996.A short presentation of the first Italian translation of a classic of Modern Ethics ignored by Italian philosophers for more than a century
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175Cristina 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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167L 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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234Il dolore, la speranza, il paradosso (review)Il Mulino 36 (5): 837-842. 1987.The malaise of modernity, in particular the malaise diagnosed by Nietzsche in the face of the absurdity of suffering, stems from an unfinished, dogmatic and contradictory revival of elements that medieval synthesis had marginalised: hope and earthliness. The ideologies of modernity - revolutionary-progressive or technical - were condemned to be ideologies, and therefore dogmatic, because they were based on faiths smuggled as reasons. Today we live a moment of awareness of the unfinished characte…Read more
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149J.J.E. Gracia, E. Rabossi, E. Villanueva, M. Dascal (eds), 'El análisis filosófico en América Latina' (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 80 (2): 314-317. 1988.The definition of "philosophical analysis" is far from obvious and the definition adopted by the editors should be mentioned. The editors wish to designate with this term, as is often done in the English-speaking world, a much broader tradition than that of "analytical philosophy", one initiated by the disciples of the second Wittgenstein and including Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, neo-empiricism and the "philosophy of ordinary language". From the editors' introductions it is…Read more
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152A Cohen & M Dascal (eds), 'The Institution of Philosophy' (review)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 86 (3): 609-613. 1994.A review of a collection of essays one meta-philosophy by fifteen philosophers, including Rorty, Castañeda and Putnam. It is a stimulating collection, useful reading for those who want to go beyond the caricatures of today's philosophy in America, for those interested in the discussion on the origins of the split between continental philosophy and Anglo-American philosophy and for the philosopher who does not disdain a moment of "self-consciousness". The editors, both teaching at Tel-Aviv Univer…Read more
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674The Italian Enlightenment and the Rehabilitation of Moral and Political PhilosophyThe European Legacy 25 (7-8): 743-759. 2020.By reconstructing the eighteenth-century movement of the Italian Enlightenment, I show that Italy’s political fragmentation notwithstanding, there was a constant circulation of ideas, whether on philosophical, ethical, political, religious, social, economic or scientific questions—among different groups in various states. This exchange was made possible by the shared language of its leading illuministi— Cesare Beccaria, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Francesco Maria Zanotti, Antonio Genovesi, Mario …Read more
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