{"title":"Politici e parlanti? I Cinocefali, i Pigmei e un gigante","authors":"G. Briguglia","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3740744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3740744","url":null,"abstract":"The human being is a political and speaking animal. Other beings, even with monstrous features, like Pygmees and Cynocephales in particular, seem to have similar characteristics. This article analyzes some elements of the debate on the humanity of these beings.","PeriodicalId":37926,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Readings","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45690184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faire société avec les démons ? Le magicien et la question du pacte aux derniers siècles du Moyen Âge","authors":"J. Véronèse","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3740764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3740764","url":null,"abstract":"This paper intends to confront the theology of the magic pact with demons such as it is defined in the XIVth century by the inquisitor Nicholas Eymerich – one of the best advocates of the qualification of magic as heresy – with the way the contemporary texts of ritual magic defined for their part the relationship between the magician and the devils. Indeed, the magic books that Eymerich seems to know quite well give to see a much more complex reality that the manichean vision of the theologians between the demonic worship of the apostate magician and the divine worship of the christian believer. The magician who adresses the devils by words and signs is the initiator of a true pact with God, who is the only One who can delegate to him the potestas ligandi necessary to subdue the evil spirits. This pact is based on his faith and on his spiritual purity. But at the same time, and without systematic mind, he turns to practices, such as the sacrifices, which draw a more ambivalent relationship with the spirits and seem de facto to define a kind of secondary pact. Obviously, this type of practices could only feed the traditional negative vision of magic shared by the theologians and the inquisitors at the end of the Middle Ages.","PeriodicalId":37926,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Readings","volume":"12 1","pages":"277-293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47097467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le notaire, animal politique et parlant. Jalons pour une histoire des représentations de la fonction notariale (XIIIe-XIVe s.)","authors":"B. Grévin","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3740694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3740694","url":null,"abstract":"In Thirteenth and fourteenth century Europe and Italy, the notarial function was the object of a complex process of ideological symbolization, well fitted to the role played by the notarial milieu either in the communal space, or in the laical and ecclesiastical courts. After the emergence of ars dictaminis, the growth of ars notariae boosted the formation of these representations of the notary as a “speaking political animal”. This paper tries to show how a comparative analysis of a variety of sources (prologues of Artes notariae , of notarial statutes, ludic correspondence between notaries...) allows us to explore the ways through which a complex set of metaphorical representations of the notarial figure was created in Italy and France, thus symbolizing the auto-representation of the notaries as creators of a social link based on communication and contract.","PeriodicalId":37926,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Readings","volume":"12 1","pages":"72-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46920312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gianluca Briguglia, Sonia Gentili, I. Rosier-Catach
{"title":"Introduction. L’homme comme animal politique et parlant","authors":"Gianluca Briguglia, Sonia Gentili, I. Rosier-Catach","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3740669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3740669","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37926,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Readings","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43871091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linguaggio politico e scrittura storica nel basso medioevo. Alcune riflessioni metodologiche","authors":"F. Monaco","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3740698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3740698","url":null,"abstract":"Starting from the political dimension that is related to every form of writing of history – meant as an oriented reconstruction of the past connected to the political and ideological context of reference – this paper proposes some general considerations about the political language used in the writing of history. Special attention will be given to particular themes, like the presence of semantic changes, the continuing existence of schemes, concepts, words, periods, and the persistence of forms and methods of definition that, in different chronological divisions, can contextualize different realities, in spite of the terminological analogies. The city historiography and chronicle studies between the 13 th and the 15 th centuries lend themselves to such an analysis, because they register and picture the effective changing of the social, politic and economic structures of the urban realities whose history they narrate, in a political context characterized by fluidity, hybridity, interchangeability of forms of government. This is a political context, then, that is very fruitful from the point of view of political practice.","PeriodicalId":37926,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Readings","volume":"12 1","pages":"86-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43733338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La parole dans la cité : Rhétorique, littérature et politique dans la Toscane du XIIIe siècle","authors":"J. Bartuschat","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3740688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3740688","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the works of Bono Giamboni and Brunetto Latini in light of the wider phenomenon of the vulgarization of knowledge in 13 th century Tuscany. These authors write for a new type of audience, laic and urban, and they shape their teaching according to the social and political realities of urban society. They give a central place to rhetoric, which they consider – according to an anthropological conception which links the faculty of language to the social nature of man – as the basis of an ethic of civil life. Concerning Bono Giamboni, the analysis focuses on his Libro dei vizi e delle virtudi and shows that its allegorical form conveys a moral and political message, which is intended to be an answer to the crisis of social order and values. In Brunetto Latini, his rhetorical teaching in the Rettorica and the encyclopedia with political aims in the Tresor are completed by an allegorical poem, the Tesoretto , which puts the moral doctrine into the frame of a tale of initiation that exalts the importance of knowledge, the central value for our authors and for the society in which they wrote.","PeriodicalId":37926,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Readings","volume":"12 1","pages":"52-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48449099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mimetismo y filosofia o como pensar las modernidades perifericas","authors":"Adolfo Chaparro Amaya","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3560381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3560381","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a preliminary version of the introduction to my forthcoming book, Modernidades perifericas (Peripheral Modernities). It offers a retrospective insight into the problematical question of the nature and character of the “periphery” in the case of Latin America. I start by presenting a general diagnosis of “Modernity” from a peripheral perspective, namely, by approaching synchronically, rather than diachronically or chronologically, the relationships between pre-modernity, modernity, and post-modernity in the case of Latin American thought. I then follow this diagnosis with an exposition of the methodology that I have developed throughout my research as an appropriate theoretical framework for my project. It is here that I want to insist on the need for a move beyond the concept of “mestizaje” to that of “mimetism,” both in its historical and cultural significance, as well as from a philosophical perspective. This step is a key turn, I contend, for tackling the question of “our” Latin American Modernities. I conclude by exposing the pragmatic implications of the liberal, the Marxist and the pos-structuralist approaches to these questions. My position is an attempt to bring to light the shortcomings of each one of these perspectives and to develop a new possibility of approach, together with a new methodology, to the question of Latin American Modernities.","PeriodicalId":37926,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Readings","volume":"11 1","pages":"204-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47885501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hercules, Silenus and the Fly: Lucian’s Rhetorical Paradoxes in Erasmus’ Ethics","authors":"E. Bacchi","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.2554134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.2554134","url":null,"abstract":"Starting from the fierce conflict between Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther, my contribution aims to show the rhetorical genesis of Erasmus’ reflection on ethics. Specifically, I will focus on the fact that some of most significant and recurrent metaphors in Erasmus’ moral and theological meditation ( e.g. Hercules, Silenus and the fly) trace their roots back to the work of Lucian of Samosata. Against this background, it will be possible to investigate the fundamental role of the Lucianic attitude in defining some key-concepts of Erasmus’ thought, such as the rhetorical concepts of festivitas and persona . Moreover, I will demonstrate how these concepts become the starting point of Erasmus’ silenic moral, modelled on the sophistic ability to transform relations and proportions between things by using words.","PeriodicalId":37926,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Readings","volume":"11 1","pages":"120-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46551578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing the research on sophistry in the renaissance","authors":"Teodoro Katinis","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.2555133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.2555133","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution introduces the proceedings of the international conference The Sophistic Renaissance: Authors, Texts, Interpretations held in Veniceon September 26 th , 2016 as part of my Marie Sklodowska-Curie project Sperone Speroni (1500-1588) and the Rebirth of Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance at Ca’ Foscari University (2015-2016). This introduction briefly presents the status quaestionis and the essays collected herein, discusses the challenges scholars encounter while exploring the legacy of ancient sophists in early modern culture, and addresses some promising lines of research for deepening some aspects of the subject in the future.","PeriodicalId":37926,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Readings","volume":"11 1","pages":"58-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41707342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bioart : définition(s) et enjeux éthiques. Essai introductif","authors":"Guillaume Bagnolini, Paolo Stellino","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.2528413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.2528413","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this introductory paper is twofold. First, we seek to illustrate which are the difficulties into which one runs when one attempts to give a precise definition of what bioart is. Our hypothesis is that every attempt at such definition runs into a paradox. Indeed, if on the one hand, every definition seems inevitably reductionist, unjustly omitting one or more elements, on the other hand, defining and constraining the study area is a necessary preliminary step to understand the artistic phenomenon known as bioart. In the second part of our paper, attention will be focused on the ethical issues that bioart confront us with. These issues are all the more relevant, given the fact that bioartists often make use of biotechnologies to manipulate living organisms for artistic purposes.","PeriodicalId":37926,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Readings","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48506287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}