Vita e Pensiero

This essay reflects upon the subject’s self-representation as proposed in the first volume of Beiträge zur Berichtigung bisheriger Mißverständnisse der Philosophen by K.L. Reinhold. The primary aim is to discuss the issue that the subject, while engaging in self-representation, is simultaneously on the side of the object. This results in an identity between the two poles, in contrast with the notion that separation between them allows the possibility for representation in general, and specifically, self-representation...

Gustavo Bontadini is generally known for his contribution to metaphysical reflection. Famous, indeed, is his «short discourse», a sort of direct path through which he intends to incontrovertibly demonstrate the existence of God. Equally famous is his polemic with Emanuele Severino, who forced Bontadini’s neoclassical metaphysics within the narrow limits of a renewed Parmenidism...

Max Müller, traditionally known as a Catholic disciple of Heidegger and an innovator of philosophical thought in the Neo-scholastic tradition, is, however, less known as an original thinker of the phenomenon of education. His interesting reflections on this subject are connected to occasional and institutional circumstances and have never received adequate systematisation...

Primo fascicolo del 2023

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the meaning of the idea of happiness within the Orteguian conception of authentic life...

This paper critically analyzes the naturalistic thesis of the necessity of the universe and firstly states its scientific unprovability. Then, with further arguments, it refutes this thesis, proving that the reasons for the existence of the universe cannot be found in the universe itself. Afterwards, starting from this conclusion and Leibniz’s well-known observations concerning being and nothingness, the work demonstrates that nothingness is inconsistent and that the existence of the world implies a totally simple foundation...

The following article constitutes Part Two of an inquiry into Thomas Aquinas’s theory of time perception, dealing with the psychology of time perception in his commentaries on the De sensu et sensato and De memoria et reminiscencia (§ 1), and applying his account to the analysis of three temporal phenomena: linguistic utterances, musical intervals, and sensible motions (§ 2)...

Schopenhauer was often characterized as the philosopher of pessimism and irrational will, to be placed at the antipodes of the Kantian optimistic and rationalistic system. The theme and goal of this contribution is to show, on the basis of the examination of three interconnected topics, that Schopenhauer’s theory does not represent the antithesis of Kant’s thought, but rather depends on it...