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    Substantia – Sic et Non
    with Holger Gutschmidt and Antonella Lang-Balestra
    In Gianluigi Segalerba, Antonella Lang-Balestra & Holger Gutschmidt (eds.), Substantia – Sic et Non. Eine Geschichte des Substanzbegriffs von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in Einzelbeiträgen, Ontos. pp. 543-560. 2008.
  • Aspekte der Substanz bei Aristoteles
    In Gianluigi Segalerba, Antonella Lang-Balestra & Holger Gutschmidt (eds.), Substantia – Sic et Non. Eine Geschichte des Substanzbegriffs von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in Einzelbeiträgen, Ontos. pp. 35-84. 2008.
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    Jürgen Moltmann on Equality, Rights and Democracy
    In Mahmoud Masaeli, Nikolaos Asproulis & Timo Slootweg (eds.), Faith in Democracy. Justice, Politics and Transcendence, Gompel&svacina. pp. 245-263. 2020.
    In my paper, I am going to analyse some aspects of Jürgen Moltmann’s reflections on the Theology of Hope, the central position of eschatology for Christianity, the essential dimension of hope for Christian believers, and the political implications of the Theology of the Cross. I shall show that in Moltmann’s interpretation, God is primarily the God of hope and the God of the promise of the new creation. God reveals Himself as the God of the promise of resurrection for everybody, of the promise o…Read more
  •  364
    Form und Materie bei Aristoteles Erster Teil: Das Enigma Metaphysik Zeta 3
    Analele Universitǎţii Din Craiova, Seria: Filosofie 44 (2): 5-43. 2019.
    This essay is the first part of an analysis on the form and matter in the works of Aristotle. Within the whole analysis, I shall examine passages taken from different works of Aristotle that are relevant to the investigation on form and matter. In this essay, I shall focus exclusively on the chapter Metaphysics Zeta 3. The concepts of substance, matter, ontological subject, form, composite substance, this something and separated, which are consistently used by Aristotle within the development o…Read more
  •  297
    This paper deals with the strategy of defence that Aristotle dedicates to the principle of contradiction; the analysis is concentrated on passages of Metaphysics Gamma 4. The main thesis of the paper is that Aristotle’s strategy is an ontological, and therefore not only a logical, one: the principle is defended on the basis of the, from an ontological point of view, unacceptable consequences which would arise in case of the absence of the principle itself. These consequences are, for instance, t…Read more
  •  216
    Das Monster in uns
    Philosophical Inquiry 40 (1-2): 38-57. 2016.
    The essay consists in the analysis of the problem of the evil in the man and in the analysis of the remedies which the man can find against the evil. Plato affirms the presence of an active principle of evil in the soul of every man, which coincides with some instincts of the appetitive soul; the opposite principle to the evil is the reason, which needs, though, a correct education in order to be able to fight efficiently against the evil in us. The man can be seen as a battle field of these opp…Read more
  •  673
    Lasst uns den Weg einer neuen Ontologie einschlagen! (2. Teil)
    Analele Universitǎţii Din Craiova, Seria: Filosofie 42 (2): 5-48. 2018.
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    In my analysis I deal with some causes and origins of evil and of moral degeneration in the human dimension. My analysis focuses on Plato’s Republic. The origins and causes of the presence of injustice and of vice lie in the very structure of the human soul. The division of the soul into parts which are at least reciprocally independent of each other implies that there is the possibility that they are in conflict with each other. This is the origin of injustice and the root of every form of evil…Read more
  •  203
    Lasst uns den Weg einer neuen Ontologie einschlagen! (Teil 1)
    Analele Universitatii Din Craiova, Seria Filosofie 40 (2): 91-183. 2017.
    The present essay is the first part of an analysis regarding aspects of Aristotle’s ontology. Aristotle’s ontology is, in my opinion, a formal ontology that examines the fundamental structures of reality and that investigates the features belonging to entities such as substance, quantity, quality, universals. Aristotle’s ontology investigates, moreover, the reciprocal relations existing between these entities. Aristotle’s interpretation of universals is not, in my opinion, a nominalist interpret…Read more
  •  5
    Semantik und Ontologie: drei Studien zu Aristoteles
    Berner Reihe philosophischer Studien. 2013.
    The focus of the book, which consists in three studies, can be described in the following aspects: Considerations on Aristotle's universals, reconstruction of Aristotle's critics to Plato' s ideas in Aristotle's lost work “On Ideas”, analysis of Aristotle's substance in the works Categories, Metaphysics, On the Soul, Posterior Analytics, Physics. My point of view is that Aristotle refuses every aspect of Plato's ideas in a radical way. I analyze Aristotle's conditions for a synonymy of predicati…Read more
  •  98
    This study deals with the ontological position of predicated entities in comparison with the entities of which they are predicated of. Aristotle strongly criticizes, in some passages of his works, the interpretation that the predicated entities are entities which independently exist of the entities of which they are predicated. Aristotle opposes his interpretation of the universals as entities which does not independently exist, against Plato's ideas, which he interprets as independently existin…Read more
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    Substantia – Sic et Non. Eine Geschichte des Substanzbegriffs von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in Einzelbeiträgen (edited book)
    with Antonella Lang-Balestra and Holger Gutschmidt
    Ontos. 2008.
    This book consists in a collection of studies composed by different researchers; every study focuses on an author or on some authors of the history of philosophy who has/have analysed, endorsed or criticized the concept of substance. Both positions for and against the ontology of substance are presented in the book.
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    Die aristotelische Substanz als Wendepunkt in der Ontologie der Antike
    Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte (Sonderheft 8): 161-172. 2010.
    This study shows that Aristotle’s introduction of the concept of substance represents a caesura in the history of ontology. The study takes two values for substance into consideration, which are a) substance as an organism (as a biological entity) and b) substance as essence, nature, form of an organism. Substances as organisms are biological concretized properties. Substance as form is the soul directing the organism and the development of the organism; the soul is both the principle of life of…Read more
  • Dividuum
    In Ivo Gurschler, Sophia Panteliadou & Christopher Schlembach (eds.), Sehen und Sagen. Für Walter Seitter, Sonderzahl Verlagsgesellschaft. pp. 54-57. 2007.
  • The essay deals with the opposition between the concept of the gradational ontology and the concept of the typological ontology. The thesis is sustained that Aristotle in his interpretation of the structure of the ontology aims at building a system of typological ontology: Therefore Aristotle differentiates substances as these somethings and as entities which are numerical ones, from universals as suches and as entities which are not numerical ones. Through this maneuver Aristotle builds an onto…Read more
  •  131
    Das Manifest für eine neue Ontologie: Metaphysik My 10
    Revue Roumaine de Philosophie 59 (2): 209-237. 2015.
    This study is dedicated to the chapter Metaphysics My 10, which, in my opinion, represents an example of basic research as regards Aristotle’s ontological investigations. The aim of my analysis is to point out that the chapter constitutes a manifesto for a new ontology: this new ontology is Aristotle’s typological ontology. The main entities of the typological ontology are universals, on the one hand, and instantiations of universals, on the other hand. The ontological levels, to which these two…Read more
  • Selbstanzeige Note su Ousia
    Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte 45 265-267. 2003.
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    Aspekte der Substanz bei Aristoteles
    In Gianluigi Segalerba, Antonella Lang-Balestra & Holger Gutschmidt (eds.), Substantia – Sic et Non. Eine Geschichte des Substanzbegriffs von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in Einzelbeiträgen, Ontos. pp. 35-84. 2008.
    The study deals with the main aspects of substance in the works of Aristotle. The presence of a plurality of values for substance is the central idea of the study; in particular, substance has 1) the value of living biological entity and 2) the value of form of the biological entity; both values are fundamental components of Aristotle's theory of substance. The prevalence, in the works of Aristotle, of the first or of the second of the two values depends on the prevailing research interest of Ar…Read more
  •  3
    The focus of the book, that consists in three studies, can be described in the following aspects: Considerations on Aristotle's universals, reconstruction of Aristotle's critics to Plato' s ideas in Aristotle's lost work “On Ideas”, analysis of Aristotle's substance in the works Categories, Metaphysics, On the Soul, Posterior Analytics, Physics. My point of view is that Aristotle refuses every aspect of Plato's ideas in a radical way. I analyze Aristotle's conditions for a synonymy of predicatio…Read more
  • Aristoteles' Entdeckung des wahrhaft Allgemeinen
    Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie 38 203-246. 2006.
    The essay deals with some aspects of Aristotle's second substances and of Aristotle's universals; the ontological status of second substances and of universals opposes the characteristics of the ideas; these characteristics are presented in the arguments of Aristotle's lost work On Ideas. The ontological presuppositions of the third man arguments are taken into examination. Aristotle's construction of a typological ontology is analyzed; the typological ontology builds the only possibility of obt…Read more