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Do too many choices have negative consequences? An empirical review
2013
Various experiments demonstrated that having too much choice has negative consequences on the motivation to choose and on the satisfaction with the chosen option. However, the literature reports conflicting results showing that choosing from large assortments has advantages. This paper reviews the main empirical results in favor and against the negative effect of too much choice and identifies possible directions for further research. Copyright © 2013 by Società editrice il Mulino.
Heurs et malheurs d’un tyran: le cas de Hiéron de Syracuse, in Pallas 79, 2009, 81-103
2009
The analysis focuses on the figure of Hieron, a Syracusan tyrant who met with mixed fortune in scholarly studies. Often compared with his brother Gelon, the second of the Deinomenides was seen as a rapacious and violent tyrant. We here reconsider the testimonies on Hieron in order to find out to what extent that judgement actually corresponds to the image which the tradition of Antiquity gave of the tyrant. The case of Hieron offers above all an opportunity to examine the lines which oriented the studies on tyranny in Sicily and to provide an outline of the latest prospects of research. L’analyse se concentre sur la figure de Hiéron, tyran de Syracuse, qui eut une fortune diverse dans les é…
Karl Julius Beloch e la tirannide di Dionisio I in Sicilia
2018
L’articolo prende in esame le riflessioni di K.J. Beloch sulla tirannide di Dionisio I di Siracusa, tanto in uno studio specificamente dedicato, quanto nella Griechische Geschichte in cui il sovrano siceliota viene indicato quale precursore della politica di Filippo II e di Alessandro Magno. Le conclusioni sono analizzate alla luce dell’impostazione storiografica e degli interessi scientifici dello studioso tedesco e verificate sulla base della ricezione che esse ebbero presso i colleghi e nelle indagini successive sul tema. This article aims at inquiring the K.J. Beloch’s considerations about the tyranny of Dionysius I of Syracuse, in a specifically dedicated essay as well as in his major …
PARADIGMI DEL TIRANNO DA TORQUATO TASSO A VITTORIO ALFIERI
2019
Il paradigma del tiranno e della tirannide attraversa lungo i secoli, dall’Antichità ai giorni nostri, un articolato cammino segnato da rotture e modificazioni di senso. L’analisi di tre opere molto diverse tra loro per genere e linguaggio stilistico, quali Il Costantino di Tasso, dialogo speculativo sulle virtù del Principe nell’età della Controriforma, l’Aristodemo di Carlo de’ Dottori, tragedia secentesca, che con la forza del linguaggio scenico ipostatizza la figura tragica del tiranno e, infine, il trattato alfieriano, Della Tirannide, risentita polemica contro il dispotismo del tempo e la scomparsa della libertà, consente di seguire la parabola di una riflessione che, tra Cinquecento …
Disumano, troppo umano. La maschera del tiranno e l’antropologia dei filosofi (da Sofocle a Seneca)
2019
Tyranny is often regarded as "a perennial problem" (Boesche 1996) on the basis of its ubiquitous presence in literature. Even more enduring is the problem of how to define human nature, its place in the environment, and its relationship to the divine – a core issue of philosophical anthropology (Pansera 2001, Honenberger 2015). In the present paper, I shall approach the literary construction of the tyrant figure in Greek and Roman tragedy from the holistic perspective of philosophical anthropology. I will focus on three well-known dramas (Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Antigone and Seneca’s Thyestes) which put great emphasis on the moral and cognitive status of tyrants as “exceptional” hum…