• Colori e valori: le qualité secondarie fra conoscenza e morale
    Rivista di Filosofia 99 (2): 197-228. 2008.
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    La dimensión perfeccionista en la crítica de la moralidad de Friedrich Nietzsche
    Telos: Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Utilitaristas 17 (2): 171-187. 2010.
    The subject of the ethical vocation of Nietzsche’s thinking is arousing increasing interest in the history of the ethics of the analytic tradition. Recent studies have sought above all to dissolve the conflicts that arise from the attempt to reconcile his open immoralism with his project of revaluing all values. According to John Rawls, Nietzsche is a moral elitist: the value that he attributes to the lives of great men such as Socrates or Goethe shows that the search for knowledge and the culti…Read more
  • Prudence and Morality in Butler, Sidgwick and Parfit
    Etica E Politica 10 (2): 72-108. 2008.
    The debate on personal identity has profoundly modified the approach to the analysis of prudence, its structure and its links with rationality and morality. While in ethics of 18th and 19th centuries the problem of justifying prudent behaviour rationally did not exist, in contemporary ethics it seems no longer possible to justify it rationally. Particularly, from the perspective of the complex account of personal identity it seems that the only way to condemn great imprudence is from the point o…Read more
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    Perfezionismo e critica della morale in Friedrich Nietzsche
    Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 24 (1): 129-144. 2011.
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    Virtù e sentimenti morali in Hume
    Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 19 (2): 331-342. 2006.
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    The present article reviews the state of public debate and legal provisions concerning end‐of‐life decision‐making in Italy and offers an evaluation of the moral and legal issues involved. The article further examines the content of a recent law concerning informed consent and advance treatment directives, the main court pronouncements that formed the basis for the law, and developments in the public debate and important jurisprudential acts subsequent to its approval. The moral and legal ground…Read more