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“I take an oath to the state, not the government”: Career Trajectories and Professional Ethics of Ghanaian Public Servants
2014
This chapter explores normative statements and narratives that feature role models or castigate discrimination and patronage. It argues that these ideals and stories create moral boundaries and support an 'esprit de corps' of dedicated public servants. The chapter discusses how such particularist identities are mobilised in the construction of a universalist ethos of public service. It gives an overview of the educational background of the public servants. The chapter discusses their experiences and views with respect to two major themes: firstly, the motivation to join the public service and the factors they identify as determining their own and other public servants' career trajectories; …
Rhetoric and Pragmatics: Suggestions for a Fruitful Dialogue
2013
The aim of this paper is to show that classical rhetoric can provide valuable insights in the contemporary debate in pragmatics. This is especially true for Aristotelian rhetoric, due to its philosophical approach. In the first part of the paper, I discusses the conditions under which ancient rhetoric can be a real partner of current pragmatics: (1) rhetoric must be understood as a type of knowledge (a techne) and not as a “jumbles of techniques”; (2) we need to consider persuasion as an anthropological feature and not only as a specific case of communication; (3) we should not exclude truth from the rhetorical field. The second part of the paper focuses on what can be considered the basic …
Logos, Pathos and Ethos in Ackroyd's Plato's Papers via an Interdisciplinary Psycho-philosophical Approach
2014
Abstract The present moral crisis of humanity will be closely considered in Ackroyd's Plato's Papers via Riemann's Theorem of Earth Mapping, Kelly's Personal Construct theory and Plato's Idea of the Third Man with a view to showing that only the generally assumed relationship between logos and ethos could rescue the mentality of the entire world and retrieve temporality and morality. For this approach to be successfully turned to good account the Aristotelian concepts of Logos (the thinking part of the intellect) mediating with Pathos (the feeling self) through the actions of his acting self, the personal Ethos, will be employed in relation to Ackroyd's character, Plato, the philosopher-ora…
El pensamiento politico de Foucault: de la ethopoyesis a la ethopolitica
2015
En este ensayo, Salvo Vaccaro analiza el pensamiento politico de Foucault. En primer lugar, el compara el concepto de soberania —fundamental para la tradicion filosofico-politica—las analiticas del poder y el dispositivo de saber-poder de la gubernamentalidad. En este itinerario, Foucault considera el dominio como fuerza de objetivacion. En segundo lugar, Vaccaro da cuenta de como Foucault reconstruye las lineas de subjetivacion del si, en un recorrido de investigacion que llega a la antiguedad clasica, aunque el resultado final de una formacion etica del si no lleva a la estrategia del pensamiento politico de Foucault. En conclusion, Vaccaro propone un panorama de ethopolitica capaz de dec…
Authors' reply-multi-organ ultrasonography: a stethoscope for the body
2018
We read with great interest the letter from Sakka et al . (1) commenting our article (2) on comprehensive haemodynamic monitoring in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). We agree with the authors that haemodynamic monitoring has to be implemented in patients with ARDS complicating TBI.
Women and Pythagorean Philosophy. Review of D.M. Dutsch, Pythagorean Women Philosophers. Between Belief and Suspicion. Oxford: Oxford University Pres…
2021
In the last few decades, Pythagorean women and their intellectual status have aroused the interest of several scholars (C. Montepaone, S. Pomeroy and others). Against this background, the present book is a most welcome instrument for scholars interested in Pythagoreanism and in women in antiquity, for it deals with Pythagorean women philosophers between ‘critique and compliance’, that is, as the subtitle says, with both belief and suspicion, the two foundations of hermeneutics highlighted by P. Ricœur. Such a critical positioning induces D. to analyse anecdotes and pseudepigrapha in search for a possible identity of Pythagorean women philosophers at the margins of official discourses and te…
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…
Unique experiences, quality of design and ethos
2012
L'articolo è una presentazione del lavoro progettuale recente di un gruppo di giovani architetti, Fabia Adelfio, Enrico e Manfredi Anello, che hanno partecipato a concorsi e realizzato opere in Sicilia e in Irlanda
Foucault: dall'etopoiesi all'etopolitica
2015
In my article, it is my intent to connect, from one part, the critical perspective of usual political philosophy with which Foucault erases the concept of sovereignty in favor of an analysis of power that finally takes him to biopolitics and governementality, and, from the other, the aesthetics of existence with which Foucualt is styling a care of self tipically ethical.
CRITICA DELLA BIOPOLITICA. FORZA DEL VIVENTE E ACRAZIA ETOPOLITICA
2016
In this paper Vaccaro criticizes the notion of biopolitics in the specific link between life and death, opposing the power of living to the concept of life as a natural substance and the force of ethopolitical acratis to the ontological fixing of the politics.