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Il piacere della persuasione. Sull’intreccio tra piacere e conoscenza nella Retorica di Aristotele

2015

L’articolo ha per argomento un principio basilare della Retorica di Aristotele: un discorso sarà tanto più persuasivo quanto più riuscirà a realizzare nell’ascoltatore un apprendimento veloce e piacevole. L’idea su cui tale principio si fonda è che il coinvolgimento necessario per la realizzazione della persuasione deve essere nello stesso tempo emotivo e cognitivo. A partire dalle numerose esemplificazioni fornite dallo stesso Aristotele, l’articolo intende mostrare che si tratta di un principio “trasversale”, ovvero non limitato ad un solo aspetto del discorso ma attivo a tutti i livelli: logico-argomentativo, lessicale e sintattico. È proprio grazie a questa trasversalità che esso può es…

Dalla biologia alla linguistica. La definizione di arthron del XX capitolo della poetica di Aristotele

2019

This paper deals with Aristotle's definiton of arthron in the XX chapter of the Poetics. This definition has always been considered as an unsolvable dilemma. Starting with a detailed analysis of the Greek text, and of the various attempts to make sense of it, the paper attempts to read it in an innovative way. The xx chapter of the Poetics is not a classification of parts of speech, as it is usually considered; we have to read it in light of Aristotle's biological program. Arthron (as well as syndesmos, syllabé) are biological terms. In linguistics as well as in biology arthron is thus a 'joint': it has nothing to do with the «article» in later grammatical sense. In this light, the book off…

Stochastic Knowledge: For the Most Part and Conjecture in Aristotle

2012

Being Opposite. On the translation of antikeimena in Aristotle's De anima

2012

The main concern of this article is the interpretation of De Anima II.4 415a14-23, and the particular way by which it is generally translated by modern editors. Almost all modern translations adopt the two locutions - \emph{objects} and \emph{correlative objects} - to translate the Greek word \antikeimena. But this choice is not neutral, nor it is without consequences for the understanding of the text.

Verità instabili. L'eikos in Aristotele

2012

This paper deals with the Aristotelian concept of eikos, traditionally translated as “probability” or “likelihood", with the aim of showing the complexity and the theoretical worth of this notion. Eikos has already been an important concept in fields such as historiography and rhetoric and it plays a crucial role in Aristotelian thought, as well. According to Aristotle, eikos does not oppose itself to truth nor is it a second-level knowledge. Instead, it is a heuristic device that is extremely useful in conditions of uncertainty. Aristotle’s task was to offer a personal elaboration of a concept that already had a rich background and was suited to become a means for reflection on a crucial p…

Movimento, anima, intelletto. Dal De anima al De motu animalium di Aristotele

2014

Choice to be Happy: Rhythm of Flourishing in Aristotle's Ethics

2019

Aristotle’s Concept of Friendship and Plato’s Structure of Human Soul

2018

Prote Hyle. Notions of Matter in the Platonic and Aristotelian Traditions

2017

How do we experience matter? Does it present itself to the senses? Or is it only an empty substratum that cannot be grasped if deprived of all sensible qualities? Is it perceived as a continuum, or rather intellectually reconstructed through mental and logical forms? Or is it that the very idea of a continuum is itself the outcome of mental abstraction? The nature of matter has been a central issue for philosophy since its inception. The constant oscillation of ancient thought between ma er as indeterminateness that does not have a concept and does not even properly exist - and matter as a principle that allows one to think plurality and otherness, that reaches even into the realm of the in…

Materia y forma en Agudeza y arte de ingenio

2009

[Resumen] Este trabajo se propone estudiar la importancia del esquema hilemórfico en la descripción del proceso de creación de las agudezas. Al acudir al marco teórico del compuesto de materia y de forma que domina la metafísica de Aristóteles, Gracián procura definir con la mayor precisión posible la génesis del sentido: cada concepto creado es un acto único que se apoya en un proceso de individuación. La forma confiere sabrosa y a veces lúdicamente a los objetos del lenguaje su unicidad. Sin embargo, la Agudeza, por la jerarquización de formas discursivas que presenta a su lector, impide toda lectura unívoca y reductora de la utilización de estos dos conceptos: cada forma creada parece so…