L\u2019amore conta? Le emozioni politiche di M.C. Nussbaum

In this paper I offer an extensive reading of the role that M.C. Nussbaum, especially in her book Political Emotions. Why Love Matters for Justice, gives to emotions as the center of political normativity. The main criticisms are that she has failed to take into account some important difficulties in defining the central emotion of her analysis that is love, and to satisfy one of the goals of her research, that is to give political liberalism a more tangible core than that of the liberal philosophical tradition

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Hume: passions, cognitive content, rationality

The article focuses on the relations between passions and cognition in Hume’s philosophy. Although it is widely recognised that Hume attributed a central role to emotions in our natural structure, it is not frequently understood that in Hume’s conceptual framework passions themselves have a gnoseological content. In this paper some arguments are provided in order to show that this is the case

Kant, Borges, Derrida: immortalit\ue0 e carnalit\ue0

Esamino alcune aporie del problema dell'immortalit\ue0 alla luce sia di alcuni esempi letterari sia di influenti posizioni filosofiche

Algoritmi animali

A short analysis of the implication of mechanism for animals and human beings

La mente che minaccia: razionalità, patrimonio emotivo, integrità deliberativa

The paper is devoted to the concept of deterrence. After a brief review of the conceptual frame-work of the so–called paradox of deterrence, it focuses on the two concepts of ‘integrity in deliberation’ and ‘emotional assets’ in order to show that they are intrinsic part of the description of an agent as rational and thus not in contradiction with the intention to retaliate

Love is noise

A short analysis of semantics of conscience and lov

Subjects to Dialogue

In this paper I examine the political philosophy of B. Ackerman and in particular his conception of neutrality. I argue that in his philosophy of dialogue neutrality has a central place because it is a moral value, and because of its anti-relativistc implications for distributive justice

Valore, piacere, utilità: un’indagine di A. Lambertino

The article is a critical note of A. Lambertino's work, Valore e piacere. It focuses particularly on the chapters dedicated to Kant, Nietzsche, Freud and on the last chapter, which clearly expresses the author's point of view. The conclusion is that the ethical position presented by Lambertino corresponds to a moderate ethical intellectualism