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I shall focus on the Epicurean notions of justice, law, and the philosophical community. By carefully examining Epicurus’s Principle Doctrines (especially 31-40) as well as some sentences of the Gnomologium Vaticanum, I want to reconstruct a reliable picture of both the ‘relativity’ of justice and the role of law.

The paper will focus on the Epicurean notions of justice, law, friendship, and the philosophical community. By carefully and especially examining Epicurus’s Principle Doctrines (KD XXXI-XXXVIII), one can hope to reconstruct a reliable picture of the ‘relativity’ of justice as well as the role of law.

Identity is a long discussed concept in many areas of philosophy. Authors of the Forum tackle the notion of identity, focusing on its history and its theoretical analysis. The normative claim embedded in the notion of identity is analysed in relation with its biological, psychological, metaphysical and political aspects.

The present Symposium aims at challenging some received views about the meaning and legacy of Rorty’s ethical and political philosophy, as well as at furthering new interpretations and reworkings of his writings on such topics.

The Politics of Juridification offers a timely contribution to debates about how politics is being affected by the increasing relevance of judicial bodies to the daily administration of Western political communities. While most critical analyses portray juridification as a depoliticizing, de-democratizing transferral of political authority to the courts (whether national or international), this book centres on the workable ambivalence of such a far-reaching phenomenon.

How should the state face the challenge of radical pluralism? How can constitutional orders be changed when they prove unable to regulate society? Santi Romano, Carl Schmitt, and Costantino Mortati, the leading figures of Continental legal institutionalism, provided three responses that deserve our full attention today. Mariano Croce and Marco Goldoni introduce and analyze these three towering figures for a modern audience.

The paper aims at offering an analysis of the development of feminist thought
(mainly in Europe and North America) looked through the notion of identity, in its
personal and political uses. The leading idea presented is that this analysis may offer
interesting considerations leading to a weakened understanding of this notion.

Pochi argomenti hanno impegnato i lettori e gli studiosi di Omero più della rappresentazione degli dèi nell’Iliade e nell’Odissea: dalle critiche di Senofane e Platone, agli allegoristi attivi già in età arcaica, per arrivare alle controversie recenti (quella ad esempio tra J. G e J. Redfield). Ripercorrendo gli aspetti salienti di queste dispute, si tenterà di mostrare come la rappresentazione degli dèi nei poemi omerici si intrecci con un tema dominante nei poemi, quello (analizzato da G.

The aim of this paper is to offer a study on L. Varius Rufus and his works (especially the poem De morte), seen mainly in their strict relation with some fundamental authors and texts of Augustan poetry: Virgil’s Bucolics, Georgics, and Aeneid; Horace’s Sermones and Carmina; Propertius 2.34 (new arguments are also proposed in favour of the identification Lynceus = Varius in this elegy). Varius’s reinterpretation, especially in Virgil, has been often considered a typical example of ‘arte allusiva’ (virtually from Macrobius to G. Pasquali).

The contributors deal with several ‘facets’ of the Italian seventies. Simona Colarizi provides an overview of the decade, analysing in particular the categories of movements, reforms, democracy, and transition. The article by Eugenio Capozzi focuses on the growing sentiment of hostility towards professional politicians, taking into account its origins and causes.