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40The fact that sociology was born during the period of the Industrial Revolution does not authorize us to consider its discourse as lacking in philosophical elements that are rooted in a previous age. Neither can we consider as fully accomplished its role for modernity, nonetheless today, in an after-modern climate (in the sense of Donati 2009), sociology is trying to escape the prejudice of modern ethics to go beyond the clichés of postmodernity (Ardigò 1989). Filled with self-reflexivity and re…Read more
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7Trust and ethics: ambivalent foundations of relationship and sui generis forms of giftScience and Philosophy 8 (2): 105-143. 2020.Is there a circular relationship between trust and ethics? Is it possible to alter their relationship, changing the perception that social actors have of them? How has trust changed in the transition from modernity to post-modernity and how does it change in times of crisis? Starting from the epistemological assumption that progress in the social sciences is determined by the change in the theoretical horizon produced by “a reformulation of metaphysical assumptions” [1] and combining this path w…Read more
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7Le relazioni riflessive tra società e tecnicaScienza E Filosofia 21 274-295. 2019.The Reflective Relationship between Society and Technique The pervasiveness of the technique is at the center of the modern and contemporary debate, in philosophy and social sciences. Heidegger, Jünger, Hillmann, Severino, Luhmann, Bauman, Beck, Donati: are some of the most illustrious intellectuals who have reflected on the subject, reaching the conclusion that the technique takes on a substitute function of religion. For the man of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, technique loses its …Read more
Simone D'alessandro
Universita' Di Chieti
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Universita' Di ChietiAssistant Professor
Areas of Interest
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |