This article pursues the aim of pointing out the occidental Personalism (that developed in Europe between the XVIIIth and the XXth century) as probably the most appropriate basis for justify the concept of “hospitality” together with the possible relative doctrine and praxis. We discuss the thought of many personalist thinkers and the thought of those thinkers that are near to the Personalism (but always taking as basis the thought of Edith Stein and Nikolaj Berdjaev). With this aim we attempt to (...) propose a new concept of person along the global personalist thinking, toward the ethical demanded by the concept of “hospitality”. Thus the concept of person seems to us the best way to approach “hospitality”. In fact this new concept of person and the rise of “hospitality” enables a view free of ideological extremisms. (shrink)

L'opera, dedicata alla liberazione dell'interpretazione dei testi di Platone dal giogo del moderno riduzionismo, analizza un vasto orizzonte di studi non riduzionistici, a loro volta posti in relazione con i testi platonici stessi e con i testi sapienziali dalla valenza platonica. In particolore viene posto in evidenza che per Platone l'idea è veramente la cosa nella sua pienezza."--Page 4 of cover.