Vita e Pensiero

This article focuses on the final sentences of the treatise attributed to Timaeus of Locri, which offers an interpretation of the closing section of Plato’s Timaeus. The passage has long provoked debate on Timaeus of Locri’s understanding of metempsychosis, some holding that he rejected it and reduced it to a persuasive myth, others holding that he accepted it without specifying his own interpretation of the matter...

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...