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Nuovo realismo
Vaselli, Stefano
2013
Abstract
The purpose of this article is an analysis of Maurizio Ferraris' theories presented in the volume "New Realism' Manifesto", under the etiquette of "New Realism". We've chosen, for reader's commodity and to distinguish Ferraris definition from other, previous uses of this terminology, to utilize the expression "Philosophical Neorealism". Philosophical Neorealism maintains the existence of an independent-from-our-knowledge-capacity reality and, furthermore, it tries to brick in a real short-circuit this "independence axiom" with the kantian thesis according to which "thoughts without intuitions are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind". This attempt implies the elaboration of several, very odd, "fashionable nonsense" (following Ferraris' lexicon) of postmodern philosophies, and, more in general, of every sort of ontological and epistemological relativism.
The latter (but, more precisely, we're speaking about forms of relativism as well as the Nietzsche's one) are at fault, according Ferraris, of the misplacement of the most "illuministic" meaning of a true and genuine philosophical criticism, as well as of his natural calling to the socratic parrhesia. However, even if in "Documentality" (2009), Maurizio Ferraris asserted without esitazione that in philosophical realism it's clearly appropriate to distinguish and separate the perspective and the level of 'reality' from the plane of 'truth', in "Manifesto", this distinction is left out or, more precisely, not further articulated.
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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Stefano Vaselli, "Nuovo realismo", in "APhEx 7", 2013, pp. 43
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