27-01 – Lo Sguardo | Rivista di Filosofia Online https://www.losguardo.net Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:48:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.14 Quale Platone per la politica? https://www.losguardo.net/en/quale-platone-per-la-politica-2/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 14:15:37 +0000 http://www.losguardo.net/?p=2930 ARTICOLI / 1 / di Mauro Bonazzi, Riccardo Chiaradonna Plato has been celebrated for centuries as the champion of the contemplative life. Such a description of Plato will be probably striking for most of the contemporary readers of the dialogues. For many, nowadays, Plato is first of all a political philosopher. The goal of the paper...

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]]> Love of Beauty in Aristotle’s Politics. The Case of Ostracism https://www.losguardo.net/en/love-of-beauty-in-aristotles-politics-the-case-of-ostracism-2/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:53:14 +0000 http://www.losguardo.net/?p=2947 ARTICOLI / 2 / di Elena Irrera In this paper I examine love of beauty (φιλοκαλία) in Aristotle’s thought, and suggest that he treats it as an emotion (πάθος) able to develop and strengthen good moral habits. I propose that Aristotle appeals to the love of beauty of some of his addressees – namely, those who...

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]]> The Role of Emotions, Desires and Passions in Politics. Machiavelli’s Political Psychology of Motivation https://www.losguardo.net/en/the-role-of-emotions-desires-and-passions-in-politics-machiavellis-political-psychology-of-motivation-2/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:46:07 +0000 http://www.losguardo.net/?p=2945 ARTICOLI / 3 / di Manuel Knoll This article shows that human emotions, desires, and passions play an important role in Machiavelli’s analysis and theory of politics. The paper claims that Machiavelli developed a psychology of motivation that is political because it is mainly interested in the driving forces of political behaviors and actions. A political psychology...

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]]> «A Statesman Should Know the Soul». On Emotional Rationality in Friendship https://www.losguardo.net/en/a-statesman-should-know-the-soul-on-emotional-rationality-in-friendship-2/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:39:36 +0000 http://www.losguardo.net/?p=2941 CONTRIBUTI/ 1 / di Jonas Holst In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle urges the statesman to study to soul. Yet, what insight into the human soul did he hold in store for the statesman? Aristotle tends to privilege rationality over the emotions, but he also expounds the need for emotions to guide reason in practical life. Drawing on the...

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]]> Plato’s Phaedrus after Descartes’ Passions. Reviving Reason’s Political Force https://www.losguardo.net/en/platos-phaedrus-after-descartes-passions-reviving-reasons-political-force-2/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:26:57 +0000 http://www.losguardo.net/?p=2939 CONTRIBUTI/ 2 / di Joshua Hall For this special issue, dedicated to the historical break in what one might call ‘the politics of feeling’ between ancient ‘passions’ (in the ‘soul’) and modern ‘emotions’ (in the ‘mind’), I will suggest that the pivotal difference might be located instead between ancient and modern conceptions of the passions. Through...

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]]> Desiderio e potere: il paradigma politico del Leviatano di Hobbes https://www.losguardo.net/en/desiderio-e-potere-il-paradigma-politico-del-leviatano-di-hobbes-2/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:23:41 +0000 http://www.losguardo.net/?p=2937 CONTRIBUTI/ 3 / di Ilaria Ferrara Hobbes’ philosophy expresses a link between the theory of the state and the doctrine of passions. In particular, contrary to an interpretation of modern political thought, elaborated during the Enlightenment and centered on the concept of state, meant as an expression of calculating reason, in the Leviathan emerges the connection...

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]]> Amor proprio. Attualità politica di una passione moderna https://www.losguardo.net/en/amor-proprio-attualita-politica-di-una-passione-moderna-2/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:19:58 +0000 http://www.losguardo.net/?p=2934 CONTRIBUTI/ 4 / di Andrea Clemente, Simone Ghelli This article is devoted to the analysis of the passion of self-love. The first part aims to retrace some of the main landmark cases within the history of modern philosophy (Descartes, Hobbes, and the Jansenists), highlighting how the distinction between self-preservation and pride becomes the main explanatory model...

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]]> «La plus héroïque de toutes les passions». L’amor di patria secondo Rousseau https://www.losguardo.net/en/la-plus-heroique-de-toutes-les-passions-lamor-di-patria-secondo-rousseau-2/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:15:42 +0000 http://www.losguardo.net/?p=2932 CONTRIBUTI/ 5 / di Debora Sicco The aim of this article is to discuss Rousseau’s concept of love of country, the political passion par excellence. Love of country is necessary for a proper functioning of politics according to Rousseau. For him, in fact, passions are essentials for the life in community. In particular, the article explores...

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