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Kant and ‘Pragmatic’ Schematism. The «Material Idea» Between Plato and Aristotle · Kant’s philosophy is often animated by the aim of conciliating opposite positions. With regard to the opposition between the two classical options of the history of metaphysics, namely Platonism and Aristotelism, he discusses the problem of the so-called « idea materialis » as a possible ‘bridge’ between material reality and immaterial knowledge. Kant ascribes the invention of « material ideas » to Descartes, but no occurrance of this expression can be found in the writings of the French thinker.

It is well known, that the in text On a Supposed Right to Lie from Philanthropy Kant holds that lying is always morally wrong. In this essay I try to demonstrate the paradoxical thesis that it is possible and maybe even necessary to contest this view by arguing exactly from the main premises of Kantʼs moral philosophy: In Kantian terms, the thesis of the text On a Supposed Right… is false. The so-called Kantian formalism relies on the criterium of the universalization of the maxim, but this criterium implies the need to always consider circumstances.

The aim of this text is to focus the relationship between philosophy and religion starting from the renewed supremacy of religion on the global public scene.

This essay reflects on the current status of Western Philosophy vis-à-vis the renewed importance of religion in the field of global public politics. It contextualizes the relationship between “faith” and “knowledge” as developed by canonical authors — such as Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger — by analyzing the failure to detach philosophical reflection from religion, especially Christianity. Departing from this discussion, the essay attempts to situate philosophy in the contemporary age.

Both Kant and James’smoral philosophies challenged generations of scholars, proving to be much more complicated and multi-faced than even an attentive look might betray. Kant is in fact not the hard-nosed deontologist pictured by modern and contemporary commentators alike, as James is not a flamboyant consequentialist. Or, at least, not only. And this is not

The contribution deals with the question on transcendental in Kant's criticism and its relationship with the question of God in the Opus Postumum.

Il contributo si sofferma sulla dottrina etica di Hans Jonas, mettendone in evidenza gli aspetti kantiani, quali la nozione dell'homo noumenon, rispetto per la legge morale, trascendenza dell'etica rispetto all'essere del cosmo e della natura.

Il testo intende riflettere sul valore che il mondo greco classico ha attribuito all’arte poetica e alla bellezza: valore educativo, o per meglio dire “paideutico”, molto diverso da quello che la modernità ha conferito alle “belle arti”. Nozione, quest’ultima, che costituisce uno degli effetti storici più diretti della crisi che la concezione greca dell’arte poetica attraversò già nel mondo ellenistico-romano e poi a causa delle profonde trasformazioni impresse dalla cultura paleocristiana all’idea greca del bello.

Partendo dal problema del rapporto tra le categorie fondamentali dello stato di diritto democratico e la loro genesi nelle filosofie dell'età moderna, il saggio mette in questione la lettura habermasiana della filosofia giuridica di Kant in "Faktizität und Geltung" sia per ciò che riguarda la tesi della dipendenza sistematica el diritto kantiano da una fondazione morale, sia in rapporto al tentativo di una nuova fondazione del diritto che, pur volendo partire dalla forma originariamente giuridica della libertà dei soggetti coinvolti nelle prassi politiche, deve escludere da essa ogni princi

L'essai est un commentaire des §§ 84-86 de la "Critique de la faculté de juger", incluant aussi une interprétation detaillée des §§ 87-88. Il est en particulier dévoué à l'analyse de la nouvelle notion de "téléologie morale" dans le contexte de l'évolution du système de la philosophie pratique kantienne, en soulignant les implications décisives soit par rapport à la théologie morale de la ‘Critique de la raison pratique", soit par rapport à l'établissement des possibilités et des limites de l'action morale du sujet dans le monde.