Monographica: individuo e moltitudine in Spinoza / The Individual and the Multitude in Spinoza http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5432 2013-05-19T22:46:27Z 2013-05-19T22:46:27Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5445 2011-10-04T23:35:49Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics Type: Fascicolo rivista

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Trifirò, Fabrizio http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5444 2012-01-31T07:35:34Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Anti-Fondazionalismo, Liberalismo e Diritti Umani Authors: Trifirò, Fabrizio Abstract: This paper gives the outline of an argument for the viability and desirability of an antifoundationalist approach to human rights and liberalism. The conception of normativity which frames my argument stands on the intuition, central in the second Wittgenstein and in the American pragmatist tradition, that accepting the ultimate circularity of our justifications does not condemn us to the corrosive consequences of radical scepticism. The conception of liberalism I prospect is centred on the deliberative democratic ideal that the best way to live with difference and conflict is to subordinate decisions of collective interests to public deliberation, which equally respects everybody’s freedom and dignity, and maintains its outcomes and principles open to revision. I will argue that an anti-foundationalist conception of normativity is the most suitable for the fuller realisation of this deliberative democratic ideal, and that a society inspired by this ideal creates the most favourable conditions for the fuller flourishing of human potentialities in any area of life. I will also point out that a volitional and discursive conception of normativity enables us to focus our efforts on the concrete political and moral obstacles to the creation of a free and equal society, thus enabling us to release the tensions between the universalistic claims of human rights and democracy and the particularistic claims of recognition raised by different cultural groups. Type: Articolo

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Cristofolini, Paolo http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5443 2012-01-31T07:34:42Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Spinoza, l’individuo e la concordia Authors: Cristofolini, Paolo Abstract: Concord may be recognised in the relationship between individuals living under the guide of reason; however it must be planned within society intended as a whole. Spinoza investigates this asymmetry: although society is a fundamental need and, for any rational human being, the best form of common living is the one lead by reason, the vast majority (multitudo) does not live under the guide of reason, but rather under the guide of passions. Those interpretations that attribute to the so called multitudo some form of spontaneous self-organised democratic wisdom, capable of ensuring a positive future, are to be considered mystical. The appendix to part IV of Spinoza’s Ethics clearly demonstrates that concord is possible only within the relationship between single individuals, and that therefore man’s task is to educate others to reason. Concord, as freedom, is considered a “private” virtue not in a egoistical or possessive sense, but because only singles can achieve it and transmit it to others, whereas it can not raise spontaneously from some sort of collective individuality. Type: Articolo

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Caporali, Riccardo http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5442 2012-01-31T07:33:24Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Spinoza e la tolleranza Authors: Caporali, Riccardo Abstract: The author claims: 1) in Spinoza a classical idea of toleration, if traceable, has a marginal role: no logic of concession, the one that (in Thomas’ conception) allows the prince to resign to the different cults just like one may resign to the human vices and sins; and no toleration as an intermediate claim, in view of a fuller acknowledgement of the individual rights (Locke, Voltaire); 2) in Spinoza there is a clear idea of an underlying “patience”, which lays under political power; a kind of “continuous low”, with variations that become decisive within the raising of the «imperium»: a most peculiar and original thesis that originates from the core of Spinoza’s political thought, and that reverses the traditional roles of “tolerant” and “tolerated”, of one and many, of governor and multitudo. Type: Articolo

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