The following article addresses the political dimension of identity in its complex interrelations with memory on one hand and normativity on the other. Identity, as Amartya Sen has shown, is neither an essence nor a function of religious belonging, as determinists and reductionists have assumed, but the result of an active process of choice. Autonomous choice, however, does not take place outside of time and space, far from external resistance and contradictions, but is rooted in situations, emotions, corporeality and all (...) sorts of qualitative dimensions. Identity, that is, is neither passivity nor unbound freedom. It is “invention”, as Said has suggested: an unstable compromise of past, present and future that is the work of imagination. By drawing on categories from Arendt and Taylor, the interplay of memory, imagination and identity is explored from the point of view of contemporary social theory and its challenges, and the notion of “memory politics” is brought to bear on controversial issues such as the cohabitation of secular and religious worldviews in a multicultural society. (shrink)

Wolff develops a reinterpretation of the philosophical categories of traditional practical philosophy in order to adapt its content to the requirements of modern thought. Both rationality, that must infer goodness understood as the object of behaviour, and desire, that motivates human behaviour, are for Wolff already newly defined through the categories provided by the philosophy of the seventeenth century. In order to save the content of the ethics of goodlife, Wolff develops a rationally-foundet theory of motivation that then from Kant (...) onwards was used to combat traditional ethics. The relevance of Wolff's practical philosophy does not so much consist in that it revives and updates philosophical categories of an old tradition whose demise seemed inevitable with the appearance of the modern period. It consists much more in that Wolff's practical philosophy unites two epochs which, following him, can no longer be conceived without difficulty in a coherent theory of practice. By means of a positive reference to Hobbes, Descartes and Leibniz, Wolff arrives at a solution - in keeping with the requirements of modern philosophy - of the Aristotelian problem of how goodness may be comprehended as real and achievable by humans. (shrink)

A partir –al menos– de 1960, diferentes interpretaciones de la ética aristotélica de la virtud han condicionado profundamente el carácter de la discusión filosófica contemporánea en torno al bien y a la justicia. De hecho, es a través de una utilización de interpretaciones diferentes de la ética de la virtud, que se han hecho valer reivindicaciones y argumentaciones contra la ética deontológica de origen kantiano. Desde presupuestos filosóficos muy similares el problema ha sido afrontado tanto en el ámbito filosófico anglosajón (...) como en el ámbito alemán. La tesis de este trabajo es que de la Scienza nuova de Vico es posible extraer el modelo de una forma del comprender y una teoría del lenguaje que permiten articular el significado individual de la experiencia de la fragmentariedad y casualidad de la vida que la interpretación debe ordenar, constituyendo de este modo el sentido del propio ser, que se realiza a través de un comprender que es, contemporáneamente, el proyecto de un hacer.Much of the recent objections brought against some of the claims in deontologic ethics have arisen in connection with the the ethics concerning virtue. The discussion has been fruitful both in the Anglo-saxon and Germanic academies. The thesis of this paper is that Vico’s New science may furnish a pattern as to enable us to understanding both a metaphysic and a theory of language through which it may be constructed a conceptual frame to unify our own experiences. The problem of identity and the self is best understood when it is viewed from the Vichian claim in terms of which the meaning of the self is explained as the proyect of realizing. (shrink)

Lo scopo di questo lavoro è tracciare una Gap Analysis dei principali ostacoli al lavoro di cura riscontrati nell’organizzazione e gestione dei servizi sociali, avvalendoci della prospettiva fenomenologica. Sono prese in considerazione le criticità ostacolanti e le Skill irrinunciabili che devono essere potenziati come correttivi per produrre benefici relativamente a cinque principali aree: innovazione, vision, relazioni professionali, intelligenza emotiva, Diversity Management.The purpose of this paper is to draw a gap analysis of the main barriers to caring work, found in the (...) organization and management of social services, drawing on the phenomenological perspective. They are considered the hindrance and the essential skill that must be strengthened as correctives to produce benefits concerning to five main areas: innovation, vision, professional relationships, emotional intelligence, diversity management. (shrink)