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Un cuento de robots : La hija cibernética de descartes
2021
French philosopher René Descartes is today valued as a forerunner of the studies of human mind, artificial intelligence and robotic systems. Throughout his work there are large references to automata and the possibility of artificial life, as well as an assessment of the differences between rational behavior of human beings and the purely mechanical of animals and automata. In addition to these references, there is a fable about the creation by the philosopher of an automaton that replicated his deceased daughter Francine, a story that is well known among the French and Anglo-Saxon specialists, but not so much in the Spanish ones, which is what settles this short work
Prefazione a La fiaba russa
2020
Vladimir Jakovlevič Propp was born in St Petersburg on 17 April 1895 and died in Leningrad on 22 August 1970. As if to say that, although he always stayed in the same city, history passed him passed in front of him, and those places took on a different meaning in the course of (his) time an entirely different sense and flavour. Of course, for a folklorist like him, used to reflecting on the distance of centuries, if not not millennia, those seventy-five years of the 20th century must have been trifles. The fact remains, however, that the heavy epochal changes he witnessed - the Russian revolution and the long Soviet political and cultural regime that followed - have weighed heavily on his w…
Recens. a C. Mordeglia, Animali sui banchi di scuola. Le favole dello pseudo-Dositeo (ms. Paris, BnF, lat. 6503), Firenze, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluz…
2019
Recens. al vol. di Caterina Mordeglia, Animali sui banchi di scuola. Le favole dello pseudo-Dositeo (ms. Paris, BnF, lat. 6503), pubblicato a Firenze nel 2017 dalla SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo.
The body fables in Babrius, Fab. 134 and 1 Corinthians 12: Hierarchic or democratic leadership in crisis management?
2021
Body metaphors and body fables were frequently used in ancient discourse for social communities and politics. This article will examine a body fable by the Greek fabulist Babrius (Babrius, Fab . 134) that has been overlooked in research so far. It shows a remarkable similarity to 1 Corinthians 12 through the use of central terms such as σῶμα and μέλος or personified speaking body parts such as an eye and head. Even if no literary direct dependence is claimed, the text, which was written at about the same time as 1 Corinthians, sheds light on Paul’s understanding of the body fable. It becomes apparent, however, that the rhetorical function is fundamentally different in the two texts. Whilst …