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This paper proposes a reconstruction of the stadium-argument against motion, one of the thorniest among Zeno’s arguments. The first step is the analysis of Aristotle’s explanation of Zeno’s paradox: this text is so cryptic and corrupted to constitute almost a mystery, both in itself and concerning the sense of the argument...

From his early writings to his later works, Kant constantly reflects on the role that feeling and love play in the domain of morality. His intention is to properly define its status for critical philosophy. Thus, moral feeling plays a prominent role in the practice of virtue...

The idea of the «circulation of European thought» can be found in a certain way in the thought of both Silvio and Bertrando Spaventa. Since the 1840s Silvio has been critical of the idea that modern thought would be absent in Italy because of the lack of religious Reform, while at the same time identifying the idea of a mobility of European thought...

I will examine the status of the possibility of wisdom in Stoicism. In Stoic sources the possibility of wisdom seems to be presented in three ways. Of all these perspectives, the most interesting one seems to be the third. It seems to have been influenced by Stoic cosmology, rationalist and optimistic. Within this third perspective it is perhaps possible to trace the following development: a starting point represented by the distinction, attributed to Zeno, between two types of insipiens...

The aim of this paper is to show the historical influence exercised by the so-called Brentano’s thesis. According to Brentano intentionality, i.e. the property of being about something or having content, is both necessary and sufficient condition of the mental: all and only mental phenomena exhibit intentionality. From this point of view, Brentano’s thesis responds to a cartesian, dualistic need, insofar as it tries to distinguish the mental from the physical...

This paper presents Meister Eckhart’s metaphysical conception of love. In order to articulate his position, we offer an interpretation of what might be considered the core thesis of his doctrine, which can be summed up by the statement «Love is God»...

This article examines the way in which Pietro Pomponazzi established the nature of man, starting with chapter XIV of De immortalitate animae. The author analyzes in detail Pomponazzi’s doctrine according to which human happiness consists in the perfection of practical intellect, thus excluding theoretical activity, considered as linked to a form of life so exceptional as to be unable to represent the common human condition...

In the following Notes, the Author will investigate the relationship between «Potenzen» and «Potenzlosen» in Schelling’s Würzburger System. In particular, he will study the 1) relationship of the Absolute (or God) with the potencies; 2) the phenomenal appearance of the «Potenzlosen»; 3) the possibility of «representing» a «divine Identity», as opposed to a finite one.