Abstracts
IDEE IV (2024), 1-2
Rita Argentiero
Paralogizzare a partire da un’incognita: i quesiti V 25 e XXX 4 nei Problemata di (pseudo-)Aristotele
Abstract The present article aims to examine questions V 25 and XXX 4 contained in (pseudo-) Aristotle’s Problems, which concern the reason why men, when travelling along a road of unknown length, commit a paralogism by believing it to be infinite. In the course of this study, the pseudo-Aristotelian passages mentioned above are examined from a philological and content-based perspective, with particular attention also paid to intertextual connections.
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Mino IANNE
Comunanza nella polis, armonia nell’universo. L’originalità filosofica dei Pitagorici
Abstract Although by Archytas of Tarentum, the most important Pythagorean of the fourth century. b. C., we have only four fragments accepted as authentic by Diles-Kranz, the figure of him appears particularly relevant, in the historical-philosophical context of the century in which he lived, in relation to the literary production that flourishes in concomitance with the Platonic one. The intellectual personality of Architas appears relevant also in another direction, remarkable for the comprehension of what we could define the philosophy of education according to the Taranto’s leader, who also in this case highlights the importance given to the koinonia and inner personality of the human.
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Anna MOTTA
Plotino, la scuola e la vita degli dèi: alcune riflessioni sulla koinonia
Abstract The aim of this essay is to reconstruct how life was lived in Plotinus’ school. In order to describe the Plotinian koinonia, I will focus on some passages from the Life of Plotinus, a work written by Porphyry that does not simply present a life, but offers the example of a master living in accordance with his doctrine. I will therefore try to present some relevant features of the life that Plotinus led in his circle, but also to identify both some elements of communal life that can be interpreted as intellectual exercises and some examples that bring Plotinus’ life closer to that of the gods.
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Lidia PALUMBO Abstract In this article, I try to show that in the old Academy, when it was attended by Aristotle, the model of the good life was based on three principles: 1) the coherence between life and doctrine (bios and logos), 2) the foundation of ethics not on the individual, but on the community, 3) learning as self-learning. Abstract This paper tries to demonstrate the inherent weakness of the Athenian autochthony, the main ideological basis of Pericles’ citizenship law (451/450 BC), which restricted the koinonia tonpoliton to the “pure-blooded” Athenians. Following Plato’s reflections, the aim is to show that an autochthonous identity, in claiming to be absolute, inevitably depends on otherness – either to ——————– SEZIONE II Abstract This essay presents an interdisciplinary study of the afterlife which, drawing on the thought of Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Husserlian phenomenology, examines the complex relationship between body, psyche and spirit in order to explore the possibility of a personal and bodily continuity of the human being beyond death. The reflection unfolds through a comparison with the theological tradition of Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Maritain, drawing on the medieval visionary literature of Hildegard of Bingen and Dante Alighieri to trace, within poetic and mystical descriptions, those phenomenological constants that find direct confirmation in near-death IDEE V (2025), 1-2 Gabriella ARMENISE
Le ragioni del buon vivere nell’Accademia antica
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Federica PIANGERELLI
Le matrici ideologiche della democrazia ateniese. Una prospettiva critica, a partire da Platone
exclude it (xenophobic Athens) or to embrace it (hospitable Athens) – thus revealing its intrinsic fragility.
Angela ALES BELLO
De immortalitate. Indagini sull’aldilà
experiences (NDEs) and in parapsychological phenomena, also examined from a medical and clinical perspective. Drawing on the model provided by the Resurrection of Christ, the essay thusoutlines the hypothesis of a ‘trans-physical’ corporeality, capable of preserving identity, memory and sensitivity beyond the biological dissolution of the body. The discussion finally arrives at a synthesis that places this perspective in dialogue with certain theories of contemporary physics on dark matter and the multiverse, outlining the afterlife not as a symbolic abstraction, but as the human being’s real participation in an eternal dimension that transcends mere material finitude.
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Mario CASTELLANA
L’uomo, un laboratorio perenne di trascendenze
Abstract This paper examines some results obtained in the field of cognitive neuroscience and in particular in the works of Joseph LeDoux who highlighted as a primary aspect of the phenomena inherent in the consciousness their way of transcending themselves; and this outcome, seen with the concept of ‘experimental transcendence’ advanced in the 1930s by Gaston Bachelard, allows us to
give the idea of the soul a different cognitive ad anthropological value.
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Elena CONCA
La “speranza” in alcune fonti del monastero di San Giovanni Evangelista di Lecce, nel quadro del monachesimo benedettino
Abstract After a summary on the teachings on eschatology offered by the Church in Spes non confundit (2024), by the Benedictine Order and contained in the rule of saint Benedict, some archival and printed sources (18th-19th centuries) of the Monastery of San Giovanni Evangelista in Lecce are examined; in this Institution (founded in 1133) the reflection of “hope” is significantly
present, also thanks to the most recent ecumenical dialogue.
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Ennio DE BELLIS
The immortality of the soul in the Papal Bull Apostolici Regiminis
Abstract The purpose of this article is to stimulate reflection on the papal bull Apostolici Regiminis, promulgated by Pope Leo X on December 19, 1513, during the Fifth Lateran Council. The content of the papal bull is presented in its original language, and its impact, particularly on the philosophers of the time as well as on society at large, is examined. A particular focus is also observed on the notion of the immortality of the soul.
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Daniela DE LEO
Narrare la morte come orizzonte di senso
Abstract This essay explores death as a horizon of meaning rather than a limit of life, drawing on philosophical and phenomenological perspectives. It reflects on how narrative can reveal the intimate relationship between life and death and it examines death as an existential and intersubjective experience – an event that discloses the structure of human finitude and the openness to transcendence. The concept of monad and the phenomenology of Einfühlung provide the framework to understand death as a relational process in which self and other meet at the threshold of being. In this liminal space, narration becomes a way to make visible the continuity between life, death, and the spiritual dimension of existence.
Fiaba, cultura e natura: alfabetizzazione ecologica e educazione ambientale
Abstract The aim is to propose a reflection on the relationship between fairy tales, nature, culture, and environmental education, without underestimating the role of “ecological literacy”. In order to highlight the educational value of fairy tales as a “possible educational tool”, among others available in children’s literature, in educational and leisure contexts.
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Antonio BERGAMO
Ontologia e crisi ecologica. María Zambrano e il paradigma relazionale dell’Antropocene
Abstract This article interprets the ecological crisis of the Anthropocene as the outcome of an ontological fracture of modernity, marked by the separation of subject and world. Drawing on María Zambrano, it reads the Anthropocene as an ontological event in which the rupture between thought and life, humanity and earth, becomes manifest. Through the categories of flesh and claritas, it proposes an incarnational and relational ontology to overcome dualism and renew a theology of creation.
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Alberto COSSEDDU
Heidegger e l’altro inizio. Forme e possibilità della rinascita a partire dai Beiträge zur Philosophie
Abstract This article explores the concept of “the other beginning” (der andere Anfang) in Heidegger’s Beiträge zur Philosophie, interpreting it as a form of historical-ontological rebirth. Avoiding vitalist or ecological reductions, the study shows how Heidegger frames rebirth as a radical transformation of thought – one that abandons metaphysics and technical domination in favor of attunement to the truth of Being through silence, restraint, and care.
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Luca CUCURACHI
Percorsi dell’intenzionalità e aperture trascendentali
Abstract Intentionality is configured both as a structure of knowledge and as an instance of the will, allowing the search for truth and the pursuit of good. But it is not limited to the cognitive or volitional faculty, in fact, it involves all human subjectivity, implying all of its being and its dimensions. Thanks to intentionality, in fact, a transcendental opening is possible at multiple levels: of man, of the world, of God, allowing one not to stop at what one has achieved, but to consider the path of man as a network of paths and a continuous discovery of resources, which always open to new horizons of sense.
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Ginetta DE TRANE
Innovare la didattica promuovendo la cultura del benessere e del movimento: l’evoluzione dalla
teoria alla pratica
Abstract Proposal for experimenting with a new type of teaching: one that stimulates, supports, and contributes to proposing and creating projects that empower students to take ownership of their own learning.
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Giuliana GERACE
Considerations on Bolzano’s theory of collection
Abstract Bolzano’s theory collections is undoubtedly one of his most original contributions in logic. An adequate justification of the notion of collection, as basic structure of different kinds of composite objects of thought (ideas), necessarily needs to account for its structural objectivity, i.e. for the reason why the constituents of a collection aggregate independently from subjective
attitudes.
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Prisco PISCITELLI
Ripudiare la guerra: utopia o prospettiva possibile?
Abstract This contribution takes its starting point from Article 11 of the Italian Constitution in order to examine the meaning of the principle according to which “Italy repudiates war”, questioning whether it should be understood as a utopian aspiration or as a concrete politico-legal perspective. Through an analysis of the genesis of the provision, it emerges that the term “repudiation” expresses a radical choice: war is not merely rejected, but deprived of any legal legitimacy, thereby excluding the very notion of a “just war”. This stance, however, proves to be deeply grounded in realism, as it rests on the possibility of an international order based on cooperation among states and on the mutual limitation of sovereignty. Within this framework, the article engages with major strands of European thought – from Hobbes to Kant and Erasmus of Rotterdam – highlighting the transition from war as an original condition to peace as a juridical and
ethical construction. Peace thus emerges not simply as the absence of conflict, but as a historical task and a shared responsibility, making the repudiation of war not a utopian ideal, but a concretely attainable perspective.
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Gaspare POLIZZI
Una nuova paideia per una “terza istruzione”. Ripensare l’educazione con Michel Serres
Abstract This article examines Michel Serres’ thought in relation to the transformation od educational models in the age of the digital revolution. Starting from the figure of the “third instructed”, it outlines the need for a new paideia capable of overcoming the divide between the humanities and the exact sciences, promoting an integrated, dynamic form of knowledge oriented toward creativity. Within this framework, education is reinterpreted as a process of hybridity, transition, and continuous reconfiguration of identity, in which the body and lived experience play a fundamental role. This perspective leads to a critique of the crisis affecting traditional educational institutions and, at the same time, to the need for a radical rethinking of pedagogical contents and methods in light of the communication society. Innovation and invention thus emerge not only as outcomes, but as the very aims of education, opening the way to a more free, open, and universal form of learning.