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Legal Exclusionism: Legal Personhood Between the Erasure and the Rule of Law
La personalità giuridica è uno status giuridico che conferisce agli esseri umani (e ad alcune entità non-umane) la capacità di partecipare – in modo attivo e passivo – alla generalità delle relazioni giuridiche e la capacità di eseguire atti giuridici. Si tratta di uno status giuridico fondamentale, costitutivo del concetto stesso di diritto. Inoltre, si tratta di uno status limite, ovvero di uno status che distingue i soggetti del diritto dagli oggetti del diritto. Oggi la personalità giuridica è intesa come uno status quasi-naturale, attribuito ad ogni essere umano in maniera incondizionata e inalienabile. Oggi, inoltre, la privazione totale della personalità giuridica, come nel caso dell…
Altre persone. Antropologia, visioni del mondo e ontologie indigene
2018
La messa in discussione dell’universalità delle dicotomie natura/cultura e natura/società ha posto gli antropologi di fronte al compito di elaborare nuove prospettive teoriche per l’analisi e la comparazione dei modi con cui in società diverse si concepiscono le frontiere ontologiche tra umano e non umano, soggetto e oggetto, mente e corpo, persona e cosa. Nel volume si propone una ricostruzione critica della “svolta ontologica” nell’antropologia socioculturale contemporanea, rintracciandone gli antecedenti, esaminando gli approcci dei suoi principali esponenti ad alcuni temi chiave di dibattito (i rapporti tra umanità e animalità, tra soggettività del vivente ed “essere nel mondo”, tra soc…
The Problem of the First Belief: Group Agents and Responsibility
2020
Abstract Attributing moral responsibility to an agent requires that the agent is a capable member of a moral community. Capable members of a moral community are often thought of as moral reasoners (or moral persons) and, thus, to attribute moral responsibility to collective agents would require showing that they are capable of moral reasoning. It is argued here that those theories that understand collective reasoning and collective moral agency in terms of collective decision-making and commitment – as is arguably the case with Christian List and Philip Pettit’s theory of group agency – face the so-called “problem of the first belief” that threatens to make moral reasoning impossible for gr…
I sapori dei tatuaggi nell'Amazzonia indigena
2018
Through an analysis of some ethnographic examples (Matis, Akawaio,Guayaki, Cayabi), the chapter shows how in Indigenous Amazonia tattooing was connected in multiple ways to cultural conceptions regarding both the fabrication of the person and the classifications of world components, in which complex systems of correspondence between diverse domains organize people's experience and thought.
Recognising forced migrants in transnational social work
2018
PurposeNation states’ neoliberal policies do not regard asylum seekers and undocumented migrants as deserving of a good life. Social work in welfare states is highly connected to the policies of nation states. There is a need to address theories in social work that have a transnational focus at the local level. Axel Honneth’s recognition theory enables an approach to forced migration from the direction of personal relations and personhood itself. The core idea is that if people cannot gain recognition, this causes harm to their self-realisation. The purpose of this paper is discuss how the recognition theory overcomes a national focus in social work.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is …
Groups as Persons? A Suggestion for a Hegelian Turn
2017
AbstractChristian List and Philip Pettit have recently argued for a performative theory of personhood in which all agents who manage to perform in the space of obligations are taken as persons. Based on this account they claim that group agents are also persons. This theory has been challenged on the grounds of its historical accuracy, lack of political relevance, and contestability of the concept of personhood. This paper aims to take a new perspective on the debate by approaching it through the Hegelian idea of recognition. The claim is that recognition theory provides a multi-dimensional view of personhood that gives a clearer account of what is at stake with collective personhood.
Group Personhood in the Contemporary Social Ontology
2017
How Should We Interpret Institutional Duty-Claims?
2013
It is rather natural to suppose that what we mean when we say that an institutional organization has a moral duty is parallel to whatever it is that we mean when we say that an individual has a duty. I challenge this interpretation on the grounds that it assumes that institutional organizations possess those characteristics or abilities requisite for moral agency—an assumption which I argue is highly suspicious. Against such an interpretation, I argue that we have very good reasons to suppose that the term ‘has a duty’ is used equivocally across individual and institutional contexts. In other words, the meaning of an institutional duty-claim is quite different than that of an individual dut…
La differenza femminile alla luce della fenomenologia. A partire da Hedwig Conrad-Martius
2018
The paper aims at presenting the theoretical pathway of one of Husserl's first students, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, and the influence she had first of all on Edith Stein, secondarily on Gerda Walther. The underlying research question could be summarized as follows: is it possible to trace a specific female perspective on phenomenology? The essay shows how the three phenomenologists considered are united by the interest, of great importance for pedagogy, for the theme of personhood and the constant attempt to study the human soul, in its relationship with the lived body but above all with the attention always devoted to a specific consideration of the spiritual dimension. The paper aims at prese…
Groups as Persons? : A Suggestion for a Hegelian Turn
2017
Christian List and Philip Pettit have recently argued for a performative theory of personhood in which all agents who manage to perform in the space of obligations are taken as persons. Based on this account they claim that group agents are also persons. This theory has been challenged on the grounds of its historical accuracy, lack of political relevance, and contestability of the concept of personhood. This paper aims to take a new perspective on the debate by approaching it through the Hegelian idea of recognition. The claim is that recognition theory provides a multi-dimensional view of personhood that gives a clearer account of what is at stake with collective personhood. peerReviewed