http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5446 Monographica: Prospettive del libertarismo / Perspectives of Libertarianism 2013-05-22T23:22:25Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5464 Title: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics Type: Fascicolo rivista 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5463 Title: Tradición, Historia y Cultura Authors: Pupo Pupo, Rigoberto Abstract: In this essay the author analyses the relationship between tradition, history and culture in its several interactions. He shows how history has set the most significant moments of mankind’s course and society, and how, once framed within the cultural ambit, these fundamental moments become traditions, in such a way as to express their identity and to ensure their development and continuity. Type: Articolo 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5462 Title: Il lecito piacere della finzione artistica Authors: Bettetini, Maria Abstract: The medieval analysis of artistic creation has given way to different solutions: on one hand a strongly affirmed mistrust for the poetical written word (fabula), on the other a complete acceptance of the pictorial, sculptorial or mosaic image. Long before the beginning of the struggle against iconoclasty, for which various reasons of social and political order have been found, it is possible to recognise the proof of a philosophical origin of such an attitude. Some passages from Plotinus’ Enneads define the artistic image as the direct connection to the Nous, thus being a clear invitation to represent objects in such a way as to underline their “form”, therefore avoiding all shadows and perspective issues. The result is an artistic program which has many similarities and correspondences with the Christian art of painting and sculpting of the first centuries, that clearly did not receive these aesthetical indications directly from Plotinus, but rather from the Fathers of the Church, who resumed many neo-platonical issues. Agostinus from Ippona, in a not very well known passage, states that the written text, once seen, requires a competent interpreter, whereas painting is of immediate comprehension. The written text therefore creates a further gap between its truth and the reader, while images, and in a certain sense also theatrical and mimic representations, have a ratio bifrons, as stated in the Soliloquia, in the sense that they are at the same time true and false: false because they are similar to the true and true because they are false. Type: Articolo 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5461 Title: Il libertarianism: saggio bibliografico Authors: Iannello, Nicola Abstract: The essay is an overview of libertarian literature. It begins dealing with lexical issues concerning the meaning of liberalism, classical liberalism, conservatism and libertarianism. There are two meanings of libertarianism: a large one, as a free market oriented liberalism, and a strict one, as an extreme classical liberalism which calls in question the State as the main enemy of liberty. Novelist Ayn Rand is one of the main sources for contemporary libertarian theory, although she never called herself libertarian. Murray N. Rothbard is the most important libertarian thinker; he was an “austrian” economist and a natural law theorist who considered free market as the social institution capable to satisfy every human need, security and justice included. In response to rothbardian society without a State, Robert Nozick exposed a minarchist position, in favour of a minimal State limited to the function of protecting individual rights. This distinction between anarchism and minarchism is a crucial one for libertarian theory. The most interesting current literature is that in rothbardian, natural law and natural rights style. There is also an italian libertarian literature, including works of political theory, philosophy of law, environmentalism and history. Type: Articolo 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z