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Simone Pollo, La morale della natura, Biblioteca essenziale Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2008, pp. 169
Vaselli, Stefano
2010
Abstract
Simone Pollo’s book "La morale della natura, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008", represents an absolute newsness in the italian philosophy landscape, and, even if it belongs to a small-size editorial publishing series, it performs a micro-monographic work about this specific topic: the problem of natural(istic) grounds of ethics and morality. This work is a contribution which is tending, with a very clever fluency of the principal questions and with very high mastery of exposition, to unite critical knowledge of analyzed themes and philosophical (and political, in the classical, ancient greek meaning of polites attitudes) militancy. As a result we can find in La morale della natura a clear, rich reading about problems like «Is it possible to defend the foundations of a system of ethics upon the natural basis of human behaviour and it biological ground? How can we do it?» with their (negative, but not simplistic) response, indispensable for every scientific or not-academic reader who wants to deal with or to examine in depth the very hard dominion of the nature-ethics interconnection. The aim of Simone Pollo’s book is to reach this aims from a laical, secular and aconfessional point of view and from an perspective quite liberal, free and exempt from a certain simpleton nihilism, very a la page today. Of course, from this angle, the most virtue of Pollo’s work is its efficacious way to present the deep root and the embedding of “naturalistic fallacy” – in the G. E. Moore’ sense – in a panoply of laical and confessional approach (first of all in these latter), and in its attempt of debunking of the same mistaking setting.
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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
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Stefano Vaselli, "Simone Pollo, La morale della natura, Biblioteca essenziale Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2008, pp. 169", in "APhEx 1", 2010, pp. 13
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