This paper focuses on some issues where the process of convergence between analytical and hermeneutic perspectives, with respect to their general philosophical grounds, mainly turns out to be clear. On the analytical side, the overcoming of logical Neopositivism and radical formalism and the rejection of the atomistic theory of reference by holistic theories of meaning have been the core shifts. On the side of the continental philosophical tradition, the main theoretical change lies in replacing the centrality of the subject with (...) the centrality of language, with its links to the dimension of intersubjectivity. Furthermore, the importance given to concepts such as action and intention, mainly due to the Wittgensteinian connection between language and forms of life, has led to recognising the active role of the subject in the world and the ability of language to be a means for doing things and not just a system of signs representing the world. Such a convergence, though it has not yet been reached, seems to be particularly fertile in the legal domain. Here, for example, some outcomes of speech acts theory fit the hermeneutic view of law. (shrink)

Partiendo del cuestionamiento del diagnóstico de la situación italiana como "democracia bloqueada", el autor se plantea las respuestas teóricas necesarias para la superación de una "democracia sin cualidad"; cuestiones como la de cómo ha de ser una organización social en la que la obligación hacia el otro y hacia la comunidad conviva con y corrija el derecho de los individuos. ¿Está abierto aún el camino de las reformas? En la práctica ha faltado la solidaridad, entendida como posibilidad de sinergias derivadas (...) de una cooperación creativa en los diversos niveles de intervención y responsabilidad de los actores políticos y sociales, basada en normas y valores compartidos. (shrink)

Laberthonnière, L. Da Teoria dell'educazione.--Foerster, F. W. Da I compiti essenziali dell'educazione.--Maritain, J. Da L'educazione al bivio.--Spranger, E. Da La difesa della pedagogia Europea.--Carlini, A. Da La nostra scuola.--Stefanini, L. Da Personalismo educativo.

In front of deterritorialisation / reterritorialisation process one which characterize the globalization, we try to dread the elements of continuance and break which connect among them the Forums of Porto Alegre and Genoa; these two big mobilizations of citizens of world constitute, indeed, the most relevant repository in a debate on the city. By tempting these comparisons, we build an approach of the new cycle of internationalist fights which puts production and constitution of urbanterritories as main stakes in the future (...) developments of the movement. (shrink)

Il volume raccoglie diversi saggi su teologi ambrosiani dei decenni centrali del XX secolo.

The paper addresses the epistemological and theoretical assumptions that underpin the concept of Work and Organizational Psychology as idiographic, situated, and transformative social science. Positioning the connection between uniqueness and generalization inside the debate around organization studies as applied approaches, the contribution highlights the ontological, gnoseological, and methodological implications at stake. The use of practical instead of scientific rationality is explored, through the perspective of a hermeneutic lens, underlining the main features connected to the adoption of an epistemology of practice. (...) Specifically, the contribution depicts the configuration of the applied research as a relational practice, embedded in the unfolding process of generating knowledge dealing with concrete social contexts and particular social objects. The discussion of a case study regarding a field research project allows one to point out challenges and constraints connected to the enactment of the research process as a social accomplishment. (shrink)

Porfirio constitutes an essencial tie in the transition of ancient thought into the Medieval. His writings (he takes in the Enneadas of Plotino and systematically comments the works of Plato and Aristotle), offer a unitary interpretation of both systems which have enormously influenced in the medieval philosophic tradition (Saint Augustine, Boecio, Thomas Aquinas, etc.), a tradition which may be presented as the different forms of Platonism aristotelized, or aristoteleanism platonized.