Homo compensator. La carriera antropologica di un concetto metafisico. Homo compensator: The Anthropological Career of a Metaphysical Concept

la Società Degli Individui 15 (2002)
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Il concetto di compensazione è un concetto chiave dell’antropologia filosofica moderna e corrisponde alla visione dell’uomo come essere carente. In questa prospettiva essa è intesa come risarcimento e non come ritorsione. In epoca premoderna prevaleva un’idea della compensazione come castigo divino, nemesi provocata dalla peccaminosità umana. Nella modernità si afferma invece, almeno in parte, ovvero con l’eccezione delle filosofie della storia, l’idea di un male patito, non intenzionale, rispetto al quale il rimedio migliore è proprio la compensazione intesa come lenimento .The idea of compensation is a key concept in modern philosophical anthropology. It is linked to the view of man as a defective being. Accordingly, it is understood not as retaliation but as restoration. In the pre-modern age predominated an image of compensation as divine punishment, a nemesis engendered by human sinfulness. In modernity asserts itself, at least partially, namely with the exception of modern philosophies of history, the idea of a suffered evil, an unintentional evil, as to which compensation appears to be the best remedy

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