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    Striving: Feeling the sublime
    Con-Textos Kantianos 1 (12): 358-380. 2020.
    In what follows, I will try to show how the sublime reveals a fundamental aspect of the subject as a human being: a striving to comprehend the absolute. Although at first this striving appears to lead to a futile pursuit – we cannot represent the absolute – we ultimately succeed in presenting it, thus re-affirming the fundamental role of intuition for the human being: the need to make our notions, concepts and ideas tangible. The sublime thus appears to be in close relation to an aesthetic idea,…Read more
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    Two Cases of Irony: Kant and Wittgenstein
    Kant Studien 107 (2): 343-368. 2016.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 107 Heft: 2 Seiten: 343-368.
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    Becoming Heautonomous: Exercising Judgment
    Annali Online Della Didattica E Della Formazione 19 (12). 2020.
    In this article I aim to show how the sensus communis grounds – with the use of its maxims – the possibility of reflection, endowing the subject with a duty, that of becoming human, where becoming human presupposes self-education. Self-education entails on one hand overcoming one’s self interest or private feelings – that is what an aesthetic judgment demands: To love something other than one-self; on the other hand, and more fundamentally, self-education entails to place one-self under the inde…Read more
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    Philosophising with children as a playful activity: Purposiveness without purpose
    Journal of Philosophy in Schools 9 (1): 68-83. 2022.
    While trying to preserve the autonomy of their playful activity consisting in a game of ‘questioning and answering’, the Gymnosophists defy Alexander the Great and, more importantly, go against their own chances of survival. Thankfully, we do not need to face such dilemmas when philosophising with children. Nevertheless, the Gymnosophists’ example helps construct a notion of philosophy for/with children as an autonomous playful activity that albeit purposive it is, however, without purpose. Allu…Read more
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    Kant, Wittgenstein and the problem of egoism
    Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 28 49-53. 2018.
    In the paper that follows I examine the concept of logical egoism as presented in Kant’s Anthropology, from a pragmatic point of view. In the light of Kant’s understanding of what it means to be a logical egoist, I will compare Kant’s egoist with Wittgenstein, the Wittgenstein of the Tractatus Logico–Philosophicus. I will claim that early Wittgenstein was a logical egoist. My purpose, however, is not to re-write Wittgenstein’s biography taking into account that egoism is an anthropological categ…Read more
  • Philosophy for/with children continues to face the suspicion that children—especially of relatively young ages—cannot philosophize because they are unable to think in abstract terms. In what follows we will try to establish that thinking abstractly should not be confused with thinking in general terms: All the concepts and ideas that pertain to philosophy and are abstract in nature, namely, beauty, friendship, justice, fairness etc. are, first of all, contestable and ambivalent; second, they end…Read more
  • Translation of Kant's 1768 short treatise: Von dem ersten Grunde des Unterschiedes der Gegenden im Raum (Περί του πρώτου θεμέλιου λόγου της διάκρισης των διευθύνσεων στον χώρο). Athens: PRiNTA-Ροές (2024).
  • Greek translation of Immanuel Kant's 1766 short treatise: Träume eines Geistersehers, erläutert durch Träume der Metaphysik