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Roberta Zagarella
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Accordo e persona nell’argomentazione: il caso dell’ad hominem.
2012
Is the ad hominem argument a fallacy or not? In this paper I will try to demonstrate that an ad hominem is not intrinsically fallacious and that the speaker’s personal convictions, commitments and actions are deeply involved in every argument. This paper starts with a comparison between dialectical and rhetorical approaches to the argumentation, and, in particular, to the agreement. Briefly: from a dialectical standpoint, the argumentation is aimed at resolving a difference of opinion or a disagreement. On the other hand, from the rhetorical perspective argumentation also often deals with dialogues of the deaf, with incommensurable points of view. The agreement is a key concept of Perelman’…
Il fattore personale dell'argomentazione: una prospettiva retorico-antropologica
2014
Dans le cadre d’une approche philosophique et épistémologique, qui privilège le point de vue rhétorique sur l’argumentation et la ligne de pensée Aristote-Vico-Perelman, la thèse essaye d’analyser la construction de la subjectivité dans le discours argumentatif. Je cherche à montrer qu’il est possible de tracer une théorie de l’argumentation dans laquelle subjective n’est pas synonyme de fallacieuse.En général, la thèse analyse le rôle de celui qui parle et de celui qui écoute dans l’argumentation et dans tous les discours. Je vais soutenir est que la dimension personnelle n’est pas un élément qu’il faut supprimer mais, au contraire, un élément essentiel du discours argumentatif.Une approch…
Sensi e senso comune. La sinestesia come struttura basilare del consenso
2013
Aristotle defines synaisthesis as the ability to directly understand the actions and passions of another man. It is formed through shared experience and the exchange of conversations and thoughts (Nicomachean Ethics, 1170b 10-14): thus we will investigate the epistemological status of the rhetorical consent and its philosophical roots. Analyzing synaisthesis we will work from an anthropological point of view rather than a neuropsychological one. We will prove synaisthesis is one of the basic starting points of consent. This Aristotelian notion is the cornerstone of the original inter-subjectivity. It creates space for certainty (according to Vico and Wittgenstein not Descartes). It is also …
Ingenium e natura umana in Giambattista Vico.
2009
Abstract. In the present theories about human nature there are some attempts to naturalize the mind; on the other hand there are tendencies of thought that criticise those ideas. Vico’s work can be considered the foundation of theories which refuse to naturalize humans. Vico had an anti-dualistic view of human nature, centred on ingenium and related to the ideas of action, language, civil world and culture. This essay analyses Vico’s concept of ingenium and proposes a reflection about his epistemology (1), philosophy of mind (2) and philosophy of language (3). (1) Knowledge and truth are connected to human praxis and action. Vico’s theory of knowledge is based on the verum-factum principle.…
Le tre «spezie» di lingue nella «Scienza nuova» di Vico: interpretazione diacronica e funzionale.
2009
Abstract [The three «spezie» of languages in Vico’s «New Science»: diachronic and functional interpretation]. Moving from the connection between language and thought, which plays a central role in Vico’s philosophy, R.M. Zagarella discusses the alternative between the diachronic (or chronological) and the functional (or phenomenological) interpretation of the «three languages» that respectively mark the age of gods, the age of heroes and the age of men in the «New Science». This article reconstructs the most recent debate and, by going into some of the most relevant Vico’s pages on this subject, argues in favor of a coexistence of both the interpretative perspectives.
L’animale insaturo: antropologia filosofica e retorica
2013
In the macro-area of philosophical anthropology and philosophy of language we can find an important relationship between philosophical anthropology and rhetoric. Starting from the analysis of Blumenberg’s essay An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric, the paper will focus on the relation between rhetoric and evidence, on the status of shared assumptions that form the basis of argumentation and on the role of pistis in human nature. I will also try to propose a new concept of poor humanity: man is that animal whose poverty is tied to the biological need to believe in the inherited background that we have because we belong to a community which is bound togethe…