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Cíborgs : res ipsa loquitur
2020
En el presente trabajo analizamos el daño desproporcionado sobre la naturaleza humana causado por el fenómeno cíborg a través de su encaje en la regla res ipsa loquitur, o la cosa habla por sí sola. Por un lado, fundamentamos lo que denominados naturaleza humana haciendo referencia a las iguales capacidades humanas, necesarias en el cumplimiento de funciones vitales. Por otro, esta regla recibe también el nombre de daño desproporcionado y su teoría vincula el resultado causado sobre la cosa con la lex artis de una profesión, de ahí que, para su análisis jurídico, hayamos optado por el ámbito sanitario
Human Sociability in Antonio Montecatini's (1537–99) Commentary on Aristotle's Politics
2021
The present article delves into the history of political philosophy by discussing human sociability in Antonio Montecatini's (1537–99) commentary on Aristotle's Politics. The focus is on a philosophical analysis of three interrelated ideas that Montecatini discusses: (1) Aristotle's dictum that human beings are political animals by nature; (2) naturalness of the household; and (3) the nature and origin of political communities. Montecatini's views are briefly related to those of John Case (ca. 1546–1600), and they are also contextualized within the late medieval commentary tradition on the Politics, but the main aim is to clarify Montecatini's philosophical position and examine the ways in …
Alla periferia del mondo, ai margini dell’umano. Felicità e dolore in Diodoro
2020
In the proem of his Bibliotheke, Diodorus Siculus states that a historian should provide knowledge for all mankind. Hence, the value of a historian is not measured by his ability to gather in a single narrative stories of men from all times all over the world. What matters is the way in which the common human nature of all of the actors in history emerges. This contribution focuses on the first part of Book III, in particular on the Ichthyophagoi and Acridophagoi, where the historian’s gaze oscillates between idealisation and compassion towards such primitive peoples. The diodorean ethnographic report has the merit to provide a backdrop to some of the guidelines of the cultural debate in th…
Climate Change and Global Justice: New Problem, Old Paradigm?
2014
In this paper, we focus on the conceptualization of climate change as an issue of global justice. While we do not deny that climate change raises fundamental and dramatic issues of justice among peoples as well as generations, our claim is that the language of global justice can obscure the fact that problems provoked by climate change lack some characteristic features of problems of global justice, while possessing others that are not characteristic of such problems. We begin by describing briefly how we got to where we are, climatically speaking; we go on to show why it is plausible to think of climate change as provoking problems of global justice; point out four respects in which this d…
Jürgen Habermas and the risk of liberal eugenics for the ethical self-understanding of species
2016
El artículo analiza el problema de la naturaleza humana que presenta Jürgen Habermas en su obra El futuro de la naturaleza humana, ¿Hacia una eugenesia liberal? Los vertiginosos avances biotecnológicos reclaman una rigurosa reflexión bioética que el filósofo alemán afronta superponiendo a su ética del discurso una ética de la especie. Habermas esboza un modelo de naturaleza humana construido sobre preceptos como la dignidad humana y de la vida humana, la simetría de las relaciones intersubjetivas y, a resultas de estas, la autocomprensión ética de la especie. Respecto a la eugenesia liberal, el autor se posiciona criticando la eugenesia positiva y amparando la negativa, para lo que basa su …
Ingenium e natura umana in Giambattista Vico.
2009
Abstract. In the present theories about human nature there are some attempts to naturalize the mind; on the other hand there are tendencies of thought that criticise those ideas. Vico’s work can be considered the foundation of theories which refuse to naturalize humans. Vico had an anti-dualistic view of human nature, centred on ingenium and related to the ideas of action, language, civil world and culture. This essay analyses Vico’s concept of ingenium and proposes a reflection about his epistemology (1), philosophy of mind (2) and philosophy of language (3). (1) Knowledge and truth are connected to human praxis and action. Vico’s theory of knowledge is based on the verum-factum principle.…
Social Harmony or a Happy Society
2021
In this paper, I set out to prove that once we correctly identify human nature and organize our world according to the principle of cooperation, we can arrive at a world of social harmony. We can then engage in conscious human evolution, aiming at moral and intellectual perfection. Hence, we can arrive at evolutionity, a new evolutionary epoch which would replace the current conflicting and disharmonious times of postmodernity. The current world disharmony, which can be observed especially in the field of politics and economics, is largely related to the erroneous modern Western philosophical assertions identifying the human being with an individual moved by desires and the will to power, a…
Il contenuto minimo del realismo morale
2011
Se esiste una “natura umana”, che impone vincoli a ciò che gli uomini possono fare o desiderare, allora esiste verosimilmente un nocciolo di desideri che tutti gli esseri umani hanno, che, verosimilmente, non possono non avere e che non possono desiderare in senso forte di non avere. Tale nocciolo di desideri corrisponde a ciò che, parafrasando Hart, possiamo chiamare il “contenuto minimo del realismo morale”. In tal senso, sosterrò in questo lavoro due tesi. La prima è che il contenuto minimo del realismo morale rappresenta il nocciolo di verità del realismo morale. La seconda tesi è che, esattamente come Hart riconosceva che il contenuto minimo del diritto naturale non confutava le versio…
Religijny język ekologiczny encykliki Laudato si' papieża Franciszka
2017
Announced in 2005, the encyclical of Pope Francis: Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home, is a dramatic appeal to change the attitude towards the environment and to take action to save it. The analysis was carried out from the viewpoint of ecolinguistics, and the criterion of the so-called environmental adequacy. At the center of attention was the problem of anthropocentrism, which for ecolinguists is the main “contamination ” of the language and the source of improper relations between man and nature. The encyclical is, however, a text functioning within Christianity, which is particularly blamed for the preservation of anthropocentric vision of the world within the culture. The analysis…
Introduzione a: Il prisma delle passioni. Prospettive per un'antropologia delle passioni
2021
Il volume esplora il tema delle emozioni rivalutandolo in senso antropologico. A partire da approcci disciplinari diversi, come in un prisma che fa convergere l’attenzione sul fenomeno osservato rispettandone le molteplici sfaccettature, emerge dai saggi raccolti come la sfera emotiva rappresenti una chiave d’accesso privilegiata per la comprensione della natura umana.