Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics is an open access philosophical journal, being published only in an electronic format. The journal aims at promoting research and reflection, both historically and theoretically, in the field of moral and political philosophy, with no cultural preclusion or adhesion to any cultural current. Contributions should be submitted in one of these languages: Italian, English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish. All essays should include an English abstract of max. 200 words. The editorial staff especially welcomes interdisciplinary contributions with special attention to the main trends in the world of practice. The journal has an anonymous double peer review referee system. Three issues per year are expected.

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Riccardo Fanciullacci (Venezia) riccardofanciullacci@libero.it

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Comitato Scientifico Nazionale / Italian Advisory Board:

A. AGNELLI † (Trieste), G. ALLINEY (Macerata), S. AMATO (Catania), M. ANZALONE (Napoli), D. ARDILLI (Modena), F. ARONADIO (Roma), G. AZZONI (Pavia), F. BACCHINI (Sassari), E. BERTI (Padova), M. BETTETINI (Milano), P. BETTINESCHI (Venezia), R. CAPORALI (Bologna), A.A. CASSI (Bergamo), G. CATAPANO (Padova), L. COVA (Trieste), S. CREMASCHI (Vercelli), G. CEVOLANI (Modena), U. CURI (Padova), G. DE ANNA (Udine), P. DONATELLI (Roma), P. DONINI (Milano), M. FARAGUNA (Trieste), M. FERRARIS (Torino), L. FLORIDI (Oxford), R. FREGA (Bologna), S. FUSELLI (Verona), C. GALLI (Bologna), R. GIOVAGNOLI (Roma), P. KOBAU (Torino), E. IRRERA (Bologna), E. LECALDANO (Roma), E. MANGANARO (Trieste), G. MANIACI (Palermo) R. MARTINELLI (Trieste), F.G. MENGA (Tübingen), R. MORDACCI (Milano), V. MORFINO (Milano), B. DE MORI (Padova), M. PAGANO (Vercelli), G. PELLEGRINO (Roma), V. RASINI (Modena-Reggio Emilia), M. REICHLIN (Milano), M. RENZO (Stirling), A. RIGOBELLO (Roma), P.A. ROVATTI (Trieste), A. RUSSO (Trieste), M. SBISÀ (Trieste), S. SEMPLICI (Roma), A. SCHIAVELLO (Palermo), A. SCIUMÈ (Bergamo), M. SGARBI (Venezia), F. TOTO (Roma), F. TRABATTONI (Milano), F. TRIFIRÒ (London), M.S. VACCAREZZA (Genova), C. VIGNA (Venezia), S. ZEPPI † (Trieste).

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J J. ALLAN (New Zealand), K. BALLESTREM (Germany), T. Bedorf (Germany), G. BETZ (Germany), W. BLOCK (USA), M. BYRON (USA), S. CHAMBERS (Canada), J. COLEMAN (UK), C. COWLEY (Ireland), W. EDELGLASS (USA), C.L. GESHEKTER (USA), A. KALYVAS (USA), J. KELEMEN (Hungary), F. KLAMPFER (Slovenia), M. KNOLL (Turkey), C. ILLIES (Germany), D. INNERARITY (Spain), A. LEVER (Switzerland), H. LINDAHL (Netherlands), J. MARTI (Spain), M. MATULOVIC (Croatia), J. MCCORMICK (USA), N. MISCEVIC (Croatia), A. MOLES (Hungary), L. PAULSON (France), A. PRZYLESBSKI (Poland), J. QUONG (USA) V. RAKIC (Serbia), A. SCHAAP (UK), N. TARCOV (USA), D. WEBB (UK), J.P. ZAMORA BONILLA (Spain).

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Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)
857 3807
Remarks on The Ontology and The Normative Aspect of Constitutive Rules
(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)
Żełaniec, Wojciech
After some introductory remarks on constitutive rules I proceed to one problem still insufficiently handled in the constitutive rules research: that of how coordinate the definitional exigence that constitutive rules should define new (types of ) activities and, on the other hand, the claim that constitutive rules should be a disjoint class with that of regulative or prescriptive rules. I analyse briefly several examples, such as promises or interest-charging, or ‘sprezzatura’, and set out a number of problems and complexities inherent in these examples. Yet I also indicate commonalities shared by all of them.Short of offering a solution, I put forward the hypothesis that constitutive rules may in some cases be in rerum natura bound up with prescriptive norms and can be divided from them only in virtue of a theoretical analysis.
1124 669
Teodicee: una nota su S. Nadler, Il migliore dei mondi possibili
(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)
Morfino, Vittorio
The book of Steven Nadler, The Best of all possible World. A Story of Philosophers, God and Evil gives an account of the philosophical discussions among Leibniz, Malebranche and Arnauld about the freedom of God and the problem of evil. Starting from an imaginary encounter of the three philosopher in Paris, Nadler reconstructs the complex web of intellectual relations between Leibniz and Malebranche about the Theodicy, between Malebranche and Arnauld about the Treatise on the nature and grace, and between Leibniz and Arnauld about the Discourse of metaphysics. From this reconstruction emerges a sketch of the controversy in which Leibniz’s and Malebranche’s conceptions of God are characterized by the primacy of the intellect over will, whereas Arnauld’s conception of God, according to Descartes’ perspective, states the absolute freedom of God’s will. According to Nadler, Arnauld’s battle against Malebranch’s and Leibniz’s rationalist conception of God is subterraneously guided by his feeling of great proximity between these conceptions and the position about God expressed by Spinoza in the Ethics: a God without will and understanding, a power that simply produces the world in a necessary, meaningless way.
1081 613
Il confine permeabile: la negoziazione del confine animali-umani
(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)
de Mori, Barbara
The paper is devoted to a re-examination of the issue of the Human-Animal boundary in the light of the idea that the boundary has been renegotiated every time humans has perceived a challenge to their supremacy in the hierarchy of beings. By making reference to the Darwinian framework and also to the reflections developed by the philosopher and anthropologist Raymond Corbey in his book The Methaphysics of Apes. Negotiating the Animal-Human Boundary, the paper invites to focus the attention to the necessity of reestablishing some balance between humans and animals by doing reference to the quality of life of all living beings.
1268 648
The irreducibility of the personal perspective in ethics. A reply to Baccarini
(EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010)
Cowley, Christopher
Elvio Baccarini has responded generously to my book Medical Ethics: Ordinary Concepts, Ordinary Lives (2008), but I would like to respond to three of his criticisms: first, about the role that theory ought to play in, and in relation to, moral experience; second, about my defence of a doctor’s right to conscientiously object to performing legal abortions; and third, to the reality of posthumous harm. Baccarini claims that I have overstated my claims, and drawn illegitimate metaphysical conclusions from people’s ordinary language. However, I argue that moral language is special precisely because of the way it expresses an irreducible personal perspective.
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