Pub Date : 2012-12-01DOI: 10.6092/ISSN.2421-4124/5161
Marc Hersant
From a philological point of view, a Dictionnaire philosophique never existed as such in Voltaire’s mind: it is but a posthumous ‘work’ created by the editors of his complete works (published at Kehl in 1784) who collected all the editions of the alphabetical works of Voltaire, and other short texts published elsewhere or unpublished at all. In this paper, the author shows how the question whether the Dictionnaire is a ‘rhapsody’ of various texts or a well-structured and coherent unity is anachronistic and distorting in so far as the concept of ‘literary work’ has profoundly changed since the Eighteenth century. He defends the legitimacy of the Kehl’s edition (and of the Nineteenth century editions by Beuchot and Moland that conformed with it) against the criticism of modern philologists. What is more, he justifies it not only historically, but also as a way of reading Voltaire’s polemical prose that still enables us to appreciate the richness and complexity of his thought.
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Pub Date : 2012-12-01DOI: 10.6092/ISSN.2421-4124/5156
Lorenzo Passarini
The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the philosophy of nature of G.C. Vanini from a social and anthropological point of view. In this way, recognizing the authentic nature of human being is the first step to building an equitable society, because no one is ethically free without an anthropological self-understanding of his own nature. In conclusion, we’ve thematized the enlightened function of philosophy as a critical tool finalized to overcome each kind of theological imposture.
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Pub Date : 2012-12-01DOI: 10.6092/ISSN.2421-4124/5158
A. Lupoli
An interpolation introduced by K. Schuhmann in his critical edition of De corpore (chap. VI, § 13) diametrically overturns the meaning of Hobbes’s doctrine of distinction of accidents in comparison with all previous editions. The article focuses on the complexity of this crucial juncture in De corpore argument on which depends the interpretation of Hobbes’s whole conception of science. It discusses the reasons pro and contra Schuhmann’s interpolation and concludes against it, because it is not compatible with the rationale underlying the complex architecture of De corpore, which involves a symmetry between the ‘logical’ distinction of accidents and the ‘metaphysical’ distinction of phantasms.
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The article examines the concept of culture and his roots: kwel, colere, colturus, coltus, cult (religious practice). Culture is generated and oriented by the cult
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Only in three parts of Machiavelli’s writings occurs a stark expression: «tagliare a pezzi». Two of them are in The Prince, the third one in Discorsi. Two of them concern ancient examples (Hiero and Clearchus), the other one a modern experience, the famous and violent episode in which Cesare Borgia executes his lieutenant Rimirro, a capital punishment that Machiavelli watched in Cesena. The essay tries to show how all of Machiavelli’s examples deal in a subtle way with a topical Machiavelli’s view – civil principality. From this discussion, a survey (or journey) between Machiavelli’s text and historical context begins, where some other striking questions are approached, such as the absence of Cesare Borgia in Discorsi (so sensational as neglected), the relationship between Machiavelli and Michelangelo linked by a ‘republican’ David, or the figure of pope Leo X, that would be, according to this essay, that «certain prince of present times, whom it is best not to name», and not, according to the common opinion, Ferdinand the Catholic.
在马基雅维利的著作中，只有三个部分出现了一个直白的表达:“tagliare a pezzi”。其中两个在《王子》中，第三个在《Discorsi》中。其中两个涉及古代的例子(希罗和克利亚库斯)，另一个涉及现代的经历，即著名的暴力情节，切萨雷·波吉亚处决了他的副手里米罗，马基雅维利在切塞纳目睹了这一死刑。这篇文章试图展示所有马基雅维利的例子是如何以一种微妙的方式处理马基雅维利的主题观点-公民公国。从这个讨论开始，马基雅维利的文本和历史背景之间的调查(或旅程)开始，其中一些其他引人注目的问题被接近，例如凯撒·波吉亚在《Discorsi》中的缺席(如此耸人听闻以至于被忽视)，马基雅维利和米开朗基罗之间的关系由一个“共和党”大卫联系起来，或者教皇利奥十世的形象，根据这篇文章，这将是“当今的某个王子，最好不要命名”，而不是，根据普遍的意见，天主教徒斐迪南。
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Between XVII and XVIII centuries, along Europe, the libertine culture assimilates new natural philosophy’s laical and rational achievements . Indeed, on one side it delves into the ancient Pyrrhonism’s points; in the same time and on the other side it considers the Hermeticism’s Renaissance legacy. This is an erudite and daring operation, which is against the tide and disparaging of ecclesiastical bans. Prime movers were key people as John Toland and Anglo-Dutch free-thinkers, Eugene Prince of Savoy and his intendant Baron Hohendorf, Pietro Giannone and – in Paris – abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy. The abbot, prolific writer and reader, easily moves from his first period studies about French history – in keeping with the European erudition over Deism and radical Enlightenment – to the rescue of magical – hermetical tradition in his last years. His own extensive literary work, known but never fully analyzed, is important and valuable.
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Pub Date : 2012-12-01DOI: 10.6092/ISSN.2421-4124/5159
L. Dileo
Here I examine the issue of decadence in Montesquieu’s political philosophy, as it raises especially from Considerations sur les Romains, as well as from some significant parts of L’Esprit des lois devoted to ancient Romans. The Roman case is important as it may offer an account of the author’s view of philosophy of history and of his conception of “general causes” that determine the progress, the preservation or the decline of societies and political institutions. It is also important as it involves Montesquieu’s theory of “good government”, that is both the ethical principles which the life of nations and institutions should be founded on, and the political argument of “mixed government”, a government in which political liberty is granted by a system of balance of powers that ensures the participation of each social and political force. The ancient Roman republic is an example of this kind of political system, and Roman imperialism was one of the main causes of its corruption. Even if the fate of the Roman empire cannot be easily explained – due to the role played by a complexity of different causes – following Montesquieu, we might say that its history especially tells us something extremely important about the necessity (and difficulty) of equity in governing and, consequently, about the infinite dialectic of liberty and oppression.
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We propose a path through the vast realm of Senecan Politics, from a theoretical and not historical or biographical approach. Starting from an overview of main methodological issues as well as the critical debates, several topics linking Senecan political thought to both Stoic doctrine and the core of Senecan ethics (law, cosmopolitism, theory of action and rules, theory of kingship, budding utopian thinking) have been selected and herein discussed. In so doing, we attempt to define a “space of Politics” considered as a science. Lastly, we take a glance at the Aesthetics of power with special interest in the relationship between tragedies and philosophical works.
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Pub Date : 2012-12-01DOI: 10.6092/ISSN.2421-4124/5163
Giovanni Galli
Montesquieu is widely known as one of the most important and influential authors of the French Enlightenment. The anthology of collected essays reviewed below, Lo spirito della politica. Letture di Montesquieu, edited by Domenico Felice, finds its name from one of the Montesquieu’s books entitled, De l’esprit des lois, written in 1748. Many authors from the twentieth century have studied different issues about Montesquieu’s opus maius. Some of the main arguments they discuss, like the method of his work and its relation with the Aristotelian empirical enterprise, or the differences between the claims of his thinking and that of Rousseau and many other, are now presented inside this collection of essays. It could be a useful guide for those who would like to start the study of Montesquieu’s ideas
孟德斯鸠被广泛认为是法国启蒙运动中最重要和最有影响力的作家之一。下面是《政治精神》(Lo spirito della politica)。《孟德斯鸠的书》是由多梅尼科·菲利斯编辑的，它的名字来自孟德斯鸠1748年写的一本书，名为《法的精神》。20世纪以来，许多作者对孟德斯鸠的主要著作进行了不同的研究。他们讨论的一些主要论点，比如他的工作方法及其与亚里士多德经验企业的关系，或者他的思想主张与卢梭和其他许多人的主张之间的差异，现在都在这本文集中呈现。对于那些想要开始研究孟德斯鸠思想的人来说，它可能是一个有用的指南
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Pub Date : 2011-12-01DOI: 10.6092/ISSN.2421-4124/5146
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Italian translation of Maupertuis' Eloge de Montesquieu (1755), by Domenico Felice and Piero Venturelli
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