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Bullfighting: The Legal Protection of Suffering
2018
Bullfighting has been recently accepted as Cultural Heritage by the Spanish Government. There is a current initiative to declare bullfighting as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and include it in the UNESCO list. The proponents of such initiatives contend that bullfighting should be protected and promoted on the grounds that it is an artistic activity, part of the national culture. In this chapter, I discuss the moral arguments and legal aspects that can be pitted against such a cruel practice. More specifically, I will examine the serious obstacles to the legal protection of such practices, which cause suffering and aim at killing nonhuman animals based on cultural or artistic reasons.
Similarities and Differences in the Evaluative Methods
2016
The awareness in the last few years surrounding the use of natural resources and landscape transformations has led to the development of several tools designed to evaluate the effects of human actions on them. The environmental evaluation methods, born in the USA, have known different disciplinary evolutions according to the following factors: firstly, regarding the object to assess; secondly, pertaining to the national juridical framework; and thirdly, relating to the progress in this field. Today we can affirm that we have, more or less, as many assessment techniques as countries. In fact, other than the Environmental Assessment Impact and Strategic Environmental Assessment, common to dif…
Biotechnology and Cultural Heritage Conservation
2020
The deterioration of cultural asset is induced by biological, chemical, and physical factors, influenced by anthropogenic activity and environmental conditions. In this study, the contribution of biotechnology is emphasized to define the conservation strategy, for a marble Fountain (Two Dragons, XV century) located in Palermo city center, based on an integrated approach and eco-friendly procedures. Biotechnological protocols are preliminarily applied as an integrated approach, based on microscopy observation, in vitro culture and genomic DNA analysis to recognize and characterize microbial communities. Several biological systems have been identified: green algae (Chlorella) and cyanobacteri…
Arsenical Pesticides in Early Francoist Spain: Fascism, Autarky, Agricultural Engineers and the Invisibility of Toxic Risks
2019
Abstract Lead arsenate was introduced on a massive scale in agriculture in Spain in the early 1940s. With the support of a network of agricultural engineers, the new Francoist state encouraged the production and use of lead arsenate as the main weapon against a newly arrived pest, the Colorado potato beetle. In this paper I discuss arsenical pesticides as sociotechnological products which played a pivotal role in the joint production of both chemical-based agriculture and the emerging Francoist regime in Spain during the 1940s. I review the campaigns organized by agriculture engineers and the making of the new National Register for Phytosanitary Products in 1942. The new regulations promote…
Innovation in Study of Physical and Technical Measurements. Czech-Polish Cooperation of Universities / Innowacje Studiów Fizyczne I Techniczne Metody…
2014
Abstract In the Faculty of Science (University of Hradec Králové) the innovative program in chemistry for the study specialization Physico-technical Measurements and Computer Technology was developed. The innovation of chemistry filed study has been focused especially on increase in competitiveness and in graduates employment. Design of innovation enables graduates applying for the position of experts in physical measurements and informatics and at the same time they expand their competence in the service of the physico-chemical instrumentation in industrial ecology. Because Faculty of Science is not equipped yet in expensive instrumentation for nuclear spectrometry, cross-border cooperatio…
The Broader Linguistic and Cultural Context of Central Europe
2009
Central Europe is an extremely malleable concept. It denotes a region whose political shape has been changing dramatically throughout the last millennium since the emergence of the first polities. This work focuses on the rise and political uses of Czech, Magyar, Polish, and Slovak. But this would mean tearing away the roots of the sociolinguistic reality that surrounds and has deeply interacted with the everyday realities of Slovak-, Polish-, Magyar- and Czech-speakers. The resulting picture would agree with the predominant ethnonational thinking about Central Europe as an area neatly divided among the nation-states that contain the corresponding nations speaking exclusively in their own l…
Etica, metafisica e pedagogia. Connessioni e prospettive alla luce della fenomenologia
2018
"Metaphysics and pedagogy" sounds as a very unusual combination: envisaging a connection between them seems today senseless or even impossible, especially after Kant and Heidegger. Actually, metaphysics is mostly understood as an abstract knowledge, far from reality, whereas pedagogy, as a practical science, is meant as something without any connection whatsover with a theoretical attitude. The aim of this paper is to put in question this view on both metaphysics and pedagogy. The intent is pursued starting from the link that the father of metaphysics as a science, Aristotle, has founded between it and the true moral life. This perspective is then related to the Kantian thought and, above a…
Capitanes del Renacimiento. Ética militar en la España mediterránea, c. 1500-1550
2004
En la Europa del siglo XVI los valores caballerescos, fundamento de la ética de la aristocracia militar, se enriquecieron con los ideales cortesanos. En este artículo estudiamos la difusión de esos ideales entre los oficiales del ejército de la Monarquía hispánica en los diversos reinos de la España Mediterránea. Estimamos que esta conjunción de principios morales proporcionó la base para una incipiente disciplina de los mandos militares. In Sixteenth Century Europe, the chivalric values which were in the core of military aristocracy ethics became enriched with court-like ideals. In this paper we study the diffusion of those ideals among army officers of the Hispanic Monarchy in the various…
Ai confini dell’etica: la Teoria dell’amore e del libero arbitrio
2021
Dai suoi studi dedicati alla Divina Commedia (vol. XIX/2), Romano Guardini ci propone un’analisi dell’etica dantesca, vale a dire dell’architettura di valori che Dante pose a reggere i regni dell’aldilà, e che dall’aldilà disvela il corretto ordine dell’universo e l’essenza propria della persona. A condizione dell’agire etico v’è il valore della libertà, l’umana facoltà di scelta che in vita incontra il vincolo della responsabilità: la persona libera è responsabile poiché e finché nella vita terrena decide di sé. Il senso della “Teoria dell’amore e del libero arbitrio” che Guardini scorge come nucleo dell’etica dantesca è quello di una libertà che attratta dal valore -e dai valori- ad essi …
Dante educatore: note sulla pedagogia di Romano Guardini
2022
Il presente contributo si propone di esplorare il lungo lavoro che nel corso della vita l’autore Romano Guardini svolse sulla Divina Commedia. Ne sono frutto i volumi oggi editi nel piano dell’Opera Omnia: "Studi Danteschi" e "La Divina Commedia di Dante. I principali concetti filosofici e religiosi". Guidando il lettore attraverso i diversi strati dell’interpretazione guardiniana, si tenterà di lasciar emergere un inatteso carattere pedagogico del viaggio dantesco, che può rivelarsi particolarmente prezioso per la cultura contemporanea. This paper aims at exploring Romano Guardini’s life-long work on the “Divina Commedia”. The result of his work are the two recently published volumes in th…