Andrea Borghini, Che cos'è la possibilità, Carocci, Collana "Le Bussole", Roma, 2008, pp. 111

Vaselli, Stefano

Vaselli, Stefano

2010

ISSN

2036-9972

http://hdl.handle.net/10077/29700

Article

Abstract

Andrea Borghini’ "Che cos’è la possibilità, (Carocci, Roma)" is a serious attempt to show how and why the same concept of possibility is a crucial entry of every philosophical lexicon regardless its “school” or its “history” (analytical, continental, phenomenological, ermeneutical and so on); Nevertheless, Borghini’s work doesn’t betray its original complex methodological setting, and remain a classical (preparatory) essay conceived and written from a perspective and a point of view genuinely analytical. This, because – that’s the Borghini’s book aim – every philosophical approach concerning logical, ontological and metaphysical themes concerns modal problems too. All this effort is going on in more then one hundred pages volume. Of course the principal virtue of these one hundred pages is making every topic of the whole argumentation gravitate around the ground question, the basic problems and the fundamental conceptual definition before to examine in depth more general historiographic taxonomies of every author mentioned by Borghini. From this problematic view, on the contrary, to make an history of the same concept of “possibility” is a task that Borghini explicitly, and very kindly, refuse as impossible in a so brief, short and very manageable book. These features is the most remarkable of Andrea Borghini’s book, and they make this a precious and lively contribute, useful to an inexperienced public as the typical young reader of high school, which is the fundamental characteristic that a good preparatory book of philosophy ought to possess and to infuse.