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14. Die ethische Gemeinschaft der Geister mit Gott (§§ 84–90)In Hubertus Busche (ed.), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Monadologie, Akademie Verlag. pp. 245-259. 2009.
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6Morfologie del rapporto parti/tutto: totalità e complessità nelle filosofie dell'età moderna (edited book)Mimesis. 2019.CONTENTS: SEZIONE I IL TUTTO E' UNO? IL RISVEGLIO DI UN PROBLEMA TRA SCOLASTICA E RINASCIMENTO Il principio omne causatum est compositum fra Tommaso e Cajetano Igor Agostini, p. 25 Parti e tutto in Montaigne. La natura e l'individuo tra frammentazione e integrazione Raffaele Carbone 45 Le minuzzarie e il tutto. Giordano bruno e la conoscenza universale Maurizio Cambi 75 SEZIONE II A PARTIRE DA CARTESIO. COME PUO' ESSERE UN TUTTO L'UOMO? Mente/Corpo in Cartesio. Spunti per un'interpretazione…Read more
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Leibniz and Ethics: the Years 1669-1672In Stuart Brown (ed.), The Young Leibniz and His Philosophy, Kluwer. pp. 147-167. 1999.Was Leibniz able to give an answer to Carneades' Argument against Justice? This paper discusses Leibniz's first drafts of an Ethical System in 1669-1672 as different attempts to give to Carneades' thesis that Justice is just foolishness a better answer than those which Grotius and Hobbes had formerly given.
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4Rationality of the Irregular. Political Communities and Constitutional Devices in LeibnizStudia Leibnitiana 43 (1): 36-53. 2011.
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1Spontaneità e ragion sufficiente: determinismo e filosofia dell'azione in LeibnizEdizioni di storia e letteratura. 2002.
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37L’ammirazione in Cartesio e Spinoza. Classificazione degli affetti e costituzione dello spazio antropologicoLaboratorio dell’ISPF (1-2): 1-19. 2009.The status of «Admiration» in Descartes and Spinoza is illustrated by F. Piro as an index of different anthropological options, concerning the relationships between emotions and rationality and the role that they play in social, political and religious behavior. The differences in metaphysical assumptions that separate the two thinkers as well as the internal evolution of their thinking are enucleated under such perspective. In the background there are at least three main philosophical issues: (…Read more
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54Vicissitudes de deux oeufs. Principe de raison et principe des indiscernables dans les premiers écrits de LeibnizIn Enrico Pasini (ed.), La Monadologie de Leibniz: Genèse Et Contexte, Mimesis Edizioni. pp. 3-29. 2005.
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129Il Retore Interno. Immaginazioni e Passioni all'alba dell'etá moderna (edited book)La città del sole. 1999.this book concerns the debates on the functions of "imagination" (phantasia, imaginatio) in the arousal of passions in the Aristotelian and post-Aristotelian traditions till the XVIIth Century. The simple fact that often a mental representation is followed by pleasure or sorrow and that these emotions can cause actions, became progressively part of a wider theory of animal and human behaviour. In the case of human behaviour, the "force of imagination" became a kind of general justification of al…Read more
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72Una difficile comparabilità. Spinoza, Leibniz e l'animazione universaleRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 49 (2): 323. 1994.
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4Monadi e monadologie: il mondo degli individui tra Bruno, Leibniz e Husserl: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Salerno, 10-12 giugno 2004 (edited book, review)Rubbettino. 2005.
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44This paper discusses Leibniz's passages concerning Durand de Saint-Pourçain. Thee passages pose a curious question: Leibniz undoubtedly shared the wide condamnation of Durand's theological view that God doesn't concur to the creaturely actions (or concurs only in an indirect way), and therefore reaffirms the classical doctrine of continuous creation, just as Descartes or Malebranche do. At the same time, he saw Durand's doctrine of God's foreseeing as a promising one, even as an anticipation of…Read more
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Monadi E Monadologie. Il Mondo Degli Individui Tra Bruno, Leibniz E Husserl (edited book)Rubbettino. 2005.
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80L’argomento del “miracolo perpetuo” e i suoi sottintesi teologici. Ancora sui rapporti Leibniz-MalebrancheLaboratorio dell’ISPF (5): 1-20. 2017.The Argument of the “Perpetual Miracle” and its Theological Implications: on Leibniz-Malebranche Relationships. One of Leibniz’s strongest arguments against the Occasionalists is that, since they see all natural laws only as constant connections, Occasionalists are unable to distinguish a natural law from a constantly repeated miracle. The paper shows that Leibniz’s argument is not entirely adequate as a criticism of Malebranche, in that it stems from a theology that is quite different to that o…Read more
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3For a History of Leibniz's Principle of Sufficient Reason. First Formulations and Their Historical BackgroundIn Marcelo Dascal (ed.), Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?, Springer. pp. 463--478. 2008.How many formulations of Principle of Sufficient Reason can one find in Leibniz's works? This paper suggests that there are at least two different formulations, which start from different basic concepts, trying to sketch the relations between them and the evolution from the more ancient formulation to the mature one.
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I presupposti teologici del giusnaturalismo moderno nella percezione di VicoBollettino Del Centro di Studi Vichiani 30 125-152. 2000.The paper discusses the passages of Vico's letters and "Scienza nuova prima" (1725) concerning Grotius and blaming him as a "Socinian". First of all, it tries to identify the sources which allowed Vico to see Grotius as a hidden Socinian. In fact, these sources exist and they are to find in German debates on Natural Right, since many exponents of Lutheran and Calvinian "orthodoxy" expressed similar doubts on Grotius. In particular, the works of Guilelmus Van der Muelen (1659-1739) may have been …Read more