Search results for "Responsibility"

La reputazione delle istituzioni formative. Una questione di cura e di coerenza

2020

What is the reputation of the school and university in our society? What social credibility do they have? At first glance, it seems necessary to answer that the two main educational institutions do not enjoy a good reputation and this for a series of reasons, two of which have particular pedagogical importance: the typical mistrust of our time towards any form of institutionalization and devaluation care work. Certainly here we can see the signs of the moral fragility of our time, linked to the questioning of all forms of authority. Although it is therefore common today to talk about the importance of educational corresponsibility between school and family, there are numerous gestures that …

Vissuti di insegnanti e genitori al tempo della pandemia: note sulla corresponsabilità educativa scuola e famiglia

2022

In line with the very latest national and international literature on the effects of the pandemic in educational contexts, the paper presents a research into the lived experiences and points of view of some Sicilian parents and teachers. Adopting a phenomenological-hermeneutic methodology, the narrations of the participants were collected and then analysed by focusing on the mutual representations, meanings of co-responsibility and and co-constructed learning during the pandemic. Indeed, we will try to highlight how, from the voices of schools and families that have been forced to collaborate within the virtual space and the contracted pandemic time, new possible perspectives of meaning and…

Long-termism e short-termism nella ricerca di strategie di sostenibilità

2021

The focus of legislators, authorities and academics on the temporal dimension of sus-tainable actions has led to the progressive re-emerge of the contrast between long-termism and short-termism, that is frequent indeed in corporate law. The orientation to long-term decisions and attempts to stem the short-term ones have been a main point of recent legislative measures on this topic. This paper aims to critically re-evaluate the above contrast, highlighting some of the most relevant areas that most need regulatory interventions and suggesting abandon-ing the frequent short-term disfavor.

La "due diligence" et le lien entre le sujet et le risque qu'il faut prévenir: quelques observations

2018

The link between a risk to be prevented and a State (or an international organization) is a classical issue of the international law of state responsibility. At variance with the prevailing opinion, it is submitted that the main questions concerning such an issue cannot be answered in a unitary manner. On the contrary, these question need to be framed in the different legal contexts within which they arise. Leaving aside the traditional international legal rules on the treatment of aliens, Ssome observations are developed concerning what occurs in the fields of international human rights, international humanitarian law and international environmental law. La question du lien entre le sujet …

Excusiology. Tentativo di una traduzione penalistica dell’effetto Lucifero

2020

The article tries to figure out whether and to what extent the situationist approach by Philip Zimbardo, as it emerges in The Lucifer Effect, can be translated into penal terms. The notorious case of Abu Ghraib, as presented by Zimbardo in his book, is used as a test. The article is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to reconstructing the features of the “Abu Ghraib situation” (AGs), which is described by Zimbardo as a total situation causing deindividuation (in authors) and dehumanization (of victims). In the second part, the AGs’ features are compared to those of moral coercion: while the latter is generally assumed to have a transformative effect on the moral value of th…

Jim's Responsibiity. Further Reflections on Bernard Williams' "Jim and the Indians".

2009

Sfida al principio di imputazione. Una conversazione con Philip Zimbardo

2020

"Are we born free or do we become free?" is the core question of this essay: a conversation between the author and Philip Zimbardo, the social psychologist who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most classical and debated experiment in social sciences. Zimbardo explored the so-called psychology of evil, isolating a number of situational factors that can induce the most abject actions in most human beings. The fact that murderers can be produced in the laboratory poses an insidious challenge to the classical categories of criminal law, in particular the assumption that imputability rests on the free will. The author compares her interlocutor's assertions with a number of le…

Moral Harm and Moral Responsibility: A Defence of Ascriptivism

2012

This paper investigates the relations between the concepts of moral harm and moral responsibility, arguing for a circularity between the two. On this basis the conceptual soundness of descriptivism, on which consequentialist and non-consequentialist arguments are often grounded, is questioned. In the last section a certain version of ascriptivism is defended: the circularity is relevant in order to understand how a restricted version of ascriptivism may in fact be well founded.

A Just Criminalization of Irregular Immigration: Is It Possible?

2015

The aim of this paper is to question, from the perspective of a principled theory of criminalization, the legitimacy of making irregular immigration (IM) a crime. In order to do this, I identify three main ways in which the political decision to introduce a crime of IM may be defended: according to the first, IM is a malum in se the wrongness of which resides in its being a violation of states’ territorial sovereignty; according to the second, IM is a justified malum prohibitum the wrongness of which resides in its being a violation of a justified immigration regulation; according to the third, IM is a malum in se the wrongness of which resides in its harmful consequences for receiving stat…

Human Rights & Security: Justifying Exceptions

2017

Since its introduction in the 1990s1, the concept of securitization has received widespread attention well beyond the field of international relations in the context of which it first appeared. The concept indicates the discursive process in which: (i) an agent claims (securitization move) the necessity to adopt exceptional measures which bring about serious violations of otherwise binding rules, in order to protect a certain value from a grave and extraordinary threat, with the scope of convincing a specific audience to accept those measures and the violations to follow; (ii) the move is successful and the audience effectively accepts the exceptional measures (securitization). One of the p…