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Prometeo genetista? Per il superamento dell'opposizione natura/cultura, una prospettiva antropopoietica ed ecopoietica
2019
During the XVIIth Century, particularly with Descartes, appeared the modern concept of nature: a nature as object submitted to the reason of man. Contrary to what is generally assumed, this « nature » as domain to be worked out by man does not depend on the Greek concept of phusis. It is not to be opposed either to the modern concept of « culture ». On the contrary the Greek phusis as dynamical process invites us to think the relationship between nature and culture, or rather between the environment and the communities of men which live in it and through it in terms of a necessary interaction. The Greek phusis leads to a critique of the modern, neoliberal paradigm of natural ressources to b…
Czy religia utrwala moralną niedojrzałość jednostek ludzkich czy sprzyja rozwojowi ich moralnej dojrzałości?
2022
Jako ludzie doświadczamy swojej skończoności kruchości i bezsilności. Otaczający nas świat jest nietrwały, niestabilny, ulega destrukcji, mamy w nim do czynienie z niepewnością, przemijaniem, chorobami, starością i śmiercią. Religia dostarcza systemu orientacji i oddania, który w sposób całościowy określa porządek świata i miejsce człowieka w nim, wprowadza ład w życie, daje oparcie, nadaje sens ludzkiemu istnieniu, oswaja to, co niepewne, dodaje otuchy, pozwala okiełznać lęk. To dostarczanie systemu orientacji i czci może wzmacniać pierwotne tendencje natury ludzkiej, wzmacniać trybalizm i etnocentryzm. Dzieje się tak, gdy religia spełnia głównie rolę spoiwa dla wspólnoty, a jednostka prze…
Przemoc jako konstytutywny element teorii polityczności. Carl Schmitt a tzw. kwestia żydowska
2016
Article deals with the relationship between Carl Schmitt’’s political theory and political theology, which inherently works with the violence assumption, and the so called jewish question. Author shows the way the enemy of the political is gradually constructed on the basis of textual and doctrinal analysis. The core of Schmitt’s enemy construction depends on the refusal of the philosophical tradition, which assume that all man are equal as far as they are participating in one common nature or are in actual or potential possesion of reason. This refusal is the basis on which the criticism of normativism, for Schmitt in the inter-war period represented especially by jewish thinkers such as H…
Prawa człowieka w rzeczywistości globalnej wioski
2015
The area widely and loudly discussed, often raised in the public discourse is the topic of human rights. This topic is not new, it was already known in antiquity. Today it acquires a specific context of a shrinking global reality. As a result of computerization and media the world has become a global village, in which the events happening in the one place can at the same time can be reported in another. On the one hand we can see the cultural diversity and on the other there is a global diffusion of symbols and values. So does globalization help or impede the adoption of the same rights as fundamental human rights? Is the universality of these rights possible? Or perhaps cultural difference…
Density Decline in a Mediterranean Seahorse Population: Natural Fluctuations or New Emerging Threats?
2021
Illegal wildlife trade is considered one of the most serious threats to biodiversity worldwide, along with habitat loss/degradation and overfishing of wild stocks. Seahorses are considered at high risk as these fish represent an important component of traditional Chinese medicine but are also sold as curios and ornamental fish. On a worldwide level, illegal trade is controlled by numerous laws and regulations, but it seems to continue by assuming more dynamic routes. In the Mediterranean Sea, Hippocampus guttulatus formed one of the largest populations at Mar Piccolo di Taranto in South-Eastern Italy. During the routine monitoring of this population in 2016, a dramatic density decrease was …
Action immunitaire de chimiothérapies anticancéreuses : un exemple à travers les modes d'actions des cellules "Interferon-producting Killer Dendritic…
2009
Classical antitumoral therapies are basically perceived as a direct and lytic action of the chosen therapeutic agent against tumor cells. Nevertheless, growing evidence indicates that some anticancer strategies can work through the action of the immune system. Imatinib Mesylate (IM), a targeted drug, helped us to unravel some mechanisms of action of a natural killer sub-population: the "Interferon-producing Killer dendritic Cells" (IKDC). Thoses cells possess anti-tumoral lytic capacities, synergistically amplified by IM and interleukine (IL)-2, under the dependency of IL-15, and also antigen-presenting capability. Those cells are capable of TRAIL-mediated lysis and of antigen uptake, proce…
Butterfly effect. Inhabiting post-industrial sites
2018
In the Fifties, Renaat Braem defined “jungle” the appearance of Belgian urbanization, where it is hardly recognizable a real shape or order unless its description of “diffused city”, following the infrastructural network. This is the “typical” Belgian way of settle in the territory, along with the highly infrastructural land and the heavy industries spotting all along the Walloon axis, the industrial backbone running east-west from Mons to Verviers. Nevertheless, now that the traditional industrial exploitation is near to an end, we can find a strong identity core in this landscape, anchored to the history of these places and to the practices that there used to be acted. Belgium itself can …
Measurement of the Fluctuations in the Number of Muons in Extensive Air Showers with the Pierre Auger Observatory
2021
The successful installation, commissioning, and operation of the Pierre Auger Observatory would not have been possible without the strong commitment and effort from the technical and administrative staff in Malargue. We are very grateful to the following agencies and organizations for financial support: Argentina-Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica (ANPCyT), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET), Gobierno de la Provincia de Mendoza, Municipalidad de Malargue, NDM Holdings and Valle Las Lenas; in gratitude for their continuing cooperation over land access; Australia-the Australian Research Council; Brazil…
Extending the Limits of Nature. Political Animals, Artefacts, and Social Institutions
2020
This essay discusses how medieval authors from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries dealt with a philosophical problem that social institutions pose for the Aristotelian dichotomy between natural and artificial entities. It is argued that marriage, political community, and language provided a particular challenge for the conception that things which are designed by human beings are artefacts. Medieval philosophers based their arguments for the naturalness of social institutions on the anthropological view that human beings are political animals by nature, but this strategy required rethinking the borderline between nature and art. The limits of nature were extended, as social institution…
Anthropology of Conservation in Spain. Review and perspectives
2016
En este artículo presentamos un balance de la Antropología de la Conservación en el Estado español. Durante las últimas décadas, la protección de los espacios naturales ha aumentado de una manera exponencial en todo el mundo. A la vez que se extendía esta patrimonialización de la naturaleza, los trabajos etnográficos sobre las áreas protegidas han ido ganando terreno dentro de la disciplina y, en particular, en el campo de la Antropología Ambiental. La mencionada bibliografía ha puesto de relieve los múltiples aspectos derivados de las nuevas políticas territoriales de regulación, apropiación y mercantilización de la ‘naturaleza’. En este trabajo realizamos una revisión exhaustiva de la pro…