CONSECUTIO RERUM

Philippe Drieux

ABSTRACT: The 193rd article of Descartes’ treatise Passions of the Soul is entitled “De la Reconnaissance” and it describes a passion whose nature has nothing to do with Hegel’s famous concept Anerkennung. This article deals much more with the gratefulness and love someone may feel for his/her benefactor than with what happens when two persons recognize each other’s status or value. There might be no link between the former feelings and the way someone can prove his/her own value and existence to other people. In this sense, “reconnaissance” is the exact opposite of ingratitude – one of the … Continua a leggere

                                                                             Massimiliano Biscuso

Abstract: Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot maintained that Descartes, in his Meditationes de prima philosophia, followed the ancient tradition of spiritual exercises. In this paper I will examine Foucault’s and Hadot’s theses, analyzing both the relation between Cartesian evidence and the Stoic conception of cataleptic representation, as well as the one between the Cartesian and Augustinian overcoming of doubt. In my opinion, the French philosopher changes the spiritual exercises of the ancient philosophers into a literary genre.

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Laetitia De Rohan Chabot

Abstract: In his early philosophy, Hutcheson essentially wonders about the principles of our moral approbation, thereby putting a theory of acknowledgement at the center of his philosophy. Acknowledgement seems to be both epistemic and emotional, insofar as it refers to the spectator’s capacity to identify virtue in the agent and to approve it without the help of any previous rational knowledge. Nevertheless, Hutcheson’s thinking gets more complicated when in the Inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue, section III, he comes to consider the action’s potential effects, which the moral sense cannot … Continua a leggere

Elisabetta Mainenti

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ABSTRACT. It is widely recognized that Leibniz’s basic understanding of the mind (as a combination of consciousness and unconsciousness) gave birth to a tradition destined to affect the entire evolution of German psychology until Freud. The proposal of the possible existence of unconscious mental processes was in complete contradiction with the dominant perspective. However, following Kant’s suggestions about the articulated and complex architecture of the soul contained in his Lectures on Psychology, it can be argued that, paradoxically, it is precisely the ‘Eponymous hero’ of the ‘Enlightened Era’ that gives us a … Continua a leggere

                                                                                                 Fabiola Di Fazio

1. Introduzione.

La gnoseologia bergsoniana mostra il valore, i limiti e la natura pragmatica dell’intelligenza, senza confinarla entro le sue forme. Bergson le apre prospettive diverse.

La teoria della conoscenza elaborata dal filosofo francese segue le orme delle filosofia kantiana, ma procede oltre Kant: l’intelligenza è fenomenica e intuitiva, non è limitata alle sue forme a priori e può cogliere la dinamicità del reale. Il metodo intuitivo concesso all’intelligenza, oltre all’analisi, rende il bergsonismo un empirismo radicale.

La teoria bergsoniana implica tre nodi concettuali fondamentali: in primo luogo, la teoria della percezione e della memoria, così come … Continua a leggere

Pierre Macherey

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Abstract: A French translation by F. Fischback of Axel Honneth’s “Leiden an Unbestimmtheit” has just been published and in this article Pierre Macherey discusses how Honneth’s book attempts to reactualize Hegel’s “Philosophy of Right”. According to Macherey Honneth is right in reading Hegel as a philosopher of freedom instead of a philosopher of statism and authoritarianism. In Hegel the notion of freedom is not a feature of the subject as it is in liberal philosophy, on the contrary it presupposes its achievement through confrontation and mediation with others. Indeterminacy and that suffering which comes from … Continua a leggere