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Contingenza, necessità e libertà nel pensiero del giovane Labriola
Dognini, Davide Khabir
2025
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Abstract
This paper aims to analyse Labriola’s 1873 writing, Della libertà morale , focusing on two issues that, although the critical literature has already investigated in a rigorous manner, nevertheless require some clarification. In more detail, the first part of the discussion aims to clarify Labriola’s position on liberum arbitrium indifferentiae , showing how it bases its origin on the fundamental assumption of Spinozism: the negation of the contingency and transcendence of the possible with respect to the real. The second part, on the other hand, aims to clarify the semantic characterisation of the concepts of determinism, mechanical determinism and predeterminism (the latter also associated by Labriola with finalism). In the light of the philosopher’s reflections, it is possible to note how the last two terms - predeterminism and finalism respectively - although they may appear incompatible on superficial analysis, in reality they lead to the same theoretical outcome: the denial of freedom and the complexity of states of consciousness in the name of a superior and transcendent order.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Davide Khabir Dognini, "Contingenza, necessità e libertà nel pensiero del giovane Labriola" in: "Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics (2025) XXVII/3", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2025, pp. 499-515
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it
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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