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The Role of Ciphering in Phenomenology of Life

2004

Contemporary philosophy is inseparable from the general tendencies of spiritual life that have dominated over the past centuries. The ruling tendency of European-type philosophy has been the affirmation of a democratic life style, liberal values and human individuality and creative activity. The testimony to this is the proportional growth of the philosophy of subjectivism since modern times, the division of pure practical reason and reasoning into separate spheres to substantiate fundamental human abilities, to analyse the ways of grasping the world — such as cognition, understanding, intuition, deciphering, experience — and describe man’s correlation with beingness (cosmos). Epistemology …

The Tense-Aspect system between ontogeny and phylogeny: Evidence from the Proto-Indo-European “Injunctive”

2006

This paper examines early inflectional morphology related to the tense-aspect system of Pre-Indo-European by establishing a correlation between ontogeny and phylogeny in language acquisition and development. It will be argued that historical linguistics can shed light on the long-standing debate over the emergence of tense-aspect morphology. More specifically, the so-called Injunctive forms, which are assumed to be the most ancient verbal inflected items tracing back to the Pre-Indo-European language (see, among others, Lehmann 2002), permit us to infer that the initial grammar of the Proto-language was lacking tense morphology. In other words, the residual category of the Injunctive, which…

Towards a reconstruction of Indo-European culture: semantic functions of IE *men-

2002

Indo-European language reconstruction has allowed us to advance some hypotheses with regard to possible reconstructing cultural contents of what has been defined “Indo-European ideology” (Campanile 1992). The method of textual comparison, which compares no longer and not merely single lexical items or single syntactic constructions, but the whole literary systems too, is able to bring out linguistic and extra-linguistic reference contexts. The interest in reconstructing the Indo-European “basic lexicon” is renewed in the light of recent typological criteria of root classification (according to their active or stative meaning): the focus today is on drawing up the so-called “global etymologi…

The Pythagoreans and the Therapeutic Effects of the Paean between Religion, Paideia and Politics

2016

The interest of the Early Pythagoreans in musical speculation appears in literary sources as strictly linked with religion and education. The use of paeans for healing and calming both rage and anger among the Pythagoreans (see for instance Iamblichus, De vita pythagorica 110; Porphyrius, Vita Pythagorae 30) shows that catharsis was meant within such groups as a “purification” from every kind of excess in which religion, medicine and ethics were blended together in order to provide a harmonious order within the individuals. Music and musical education in Pythagorean communities had also a “political” role, since they were intended to foster social order.

NOTA A POSTHOMERICA V 80-85

2022

This contribution suggests an amendment to QS v 83, where it is considered necessary to correct a[llo~ to a[lla~. This correction, supported by comparison with other storm scenes in the epics, helps to clarify the meaning of the passage.

Studi sul testo di Quinto di Smirne

2022

Donazioni e ricompense:la retorica bizantina al servizio del potere normanno.

2009

Il documento d'archivio simbolo e cifra del potere anche quando questo si declina nella sfera del diritto privato. Una pergamena greca del 1141 attesta la donazione di reliquie sacre in favore dell'Archimandritato di Messina: autori e destinatari, testimoni, formulario e lessico bizantini concorrono a una precisa sceneggiatura del dispositivo politico normanno nell'epoca in cui Ruggero II e il suo ministro Giorgio di Antiochia hanno fatto delle forme mutuate dall'impero bizantino un raffinato strumento di regno. The archive document is the symbol and figure of power even when this is declined in the sphere of private law. A Greek parchment of 1141 attests the donation of sacred relics in fa…

Eurípides. El Cíclope. Ión. Reso [Introducción]

2010

Este documento contiene únicamente la introducción general a la traducción de los dramas El Cíclope, Ión y Reso, publicada en Alianza Editorial, con aspectos generales e introductorios a cada una de las piezas. This document only contains the general introduction of the translation of the dramas Cyclops, Ion and Rhesus, published in Alianza Editorial, with general and introductory issues to each of the plays.

Risk Management Optimization for Sovereign Debt Restructuring

2015

Abstract Debt restructuring is one of the policy tools available for resolving sovereign debt crises and, while unorthodox, it is not uncommon. We propose a scenario analysis for debt sustainability and integrate it with scenario optimization for risk management in restructuring sovereign debt. The scenario dynamics of debt-to-GDP ratio are used to define a tail risk measure, termed conditional Debt-at-Risk. A multi-period stochastic programming model minimizes the expected cost of debt financing subject to risk limits. It provides an operational model to handle significant aspects of debt restructuring: it collects all debt issues in a common framework, and can include contingent claims, m…

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…