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Estudos Kantianos, Marília, v. 11, n. 2, ISSN 2318-0501, 2023

In this paper, I deal with Kant’s presence in Paul Natorp’s psychology. After an introduction in ... more In this paper, I deal with Kant’s presence in Paul Natorp’s psychology. After an introduction in which I analyse the question of psychology in post-Kantian philosophy, I focus on the role of psychology in the Kantian system and show why for Kant it could not be a true science of nature; I then focus on the possibility of an alleged “transcendental psychology”. I then proceed to analyse the relationship between psychology and logic in Hermann Cohen and show the foundations of Natorp’s phenomenological psychology; in the last section, I discuss in detail the Kantian themes of Natorp’s psychology and also the relatively few grounds for disagreement.

Shift 1/2021, Care and Vulnerability, 2021

This essay discusses the relationship between Natorp and Heidegger and, in particular, Heidegger'... more This essay discusses the relationship between Natorp and Heidegger and, in particular, Heidegger's assessment of Paul Natorp's Allgemeine Psychologie. It is divided into four paragraphs, in which I first show the origins of this relationship (§ 1), and then I illustrate the fundamental characteristics of Natorp's psychology (§ 2) and Heidegger's criticism from his perspective of a philosophy of actual existence (§ 3). In the conclusion (§ 4) I briefly consider Heidegger's first course in Marburg and the writings of the last phase of Natorp's philosophical production.

Humanity. Tra paradigmi perduti e nuove traiettorie, vol. II, ISBN: 9788855292085, ISSN 2281-5368, 2022

In this essay, I am concerned with reconstructing the problematic relationship between the Transc... more In this essay, I am concerned with reconstructing the problematic relationship between the Transcendental and its source in human subjectivity. I first focus on the question of subjectivity in the philosophical psychology of the Neo-Kantian Paul Natorp, and then analyse Edmund Husserl's criticism of it, albeit from a common anti-psychological basis in the field of the theory of knowledge. I then compare the conceptions of the transcendental in Husserl and Cassirer, questioning the possibility of a philosophical anthropology, understood as a philosophical science of man, in the two authors, especially in their late reflections.

Dante 700 anni dopo, a cura di M. De Martino, Formamentis Edizioni, Bolzano, ISBN 9788831325301, pp. 67-91, 2021

P.O.I. – RIVISTA DI INDAGINE FILOSOFICA E DI NUOVE PRATICHE DELLA CONOSCENZA, 6-7, I-II, ISSN 2611-6049, 2020

This essay deals with the Fichtian popular writings of the years 1804-06, beginning with an analy... more This essay deals with the Fichtian popular writings of the years 1804-06, beginning with an analysis of the relationship between popular and scientific philosophy. It identifies in the natural sense of truth on which popular writings are based. Secondly, it analyses the connection between life and knowledge, in which philosophy is outlined as a discipline that seeks public communication through the modes of education and politics. Finally, it analyses the philosophy of history of the Grundzuege der gegenwaertigen Zeitalters, in which we understand the connection between life, knowing, and acting, in the forms of ethics, religion, and politics

G. Cogliandro, C. De Pascale, I. Radrizzani (Hg.), Das Transzendentale und die praktische Philosophie, Olms, Hildesheim-New York 2020, Europaea Memoria, Reihe I: Studien, n. 129, ISBN 978348715863, ISSN 1613-7388, 2020

In this essay, I reconstruct the relationship between life, knowledge and culture in Cassirer's p... more In this essay, I reconstruct the relationship between life, knowledge and culture in Cassirer's philosophy. First, I analyze his philosophy of knowledge (§ 2), integrating this analysis through a quick illustration of Cassirer's philosophical anthropology (§ 3); subsequently, I reconstruct the relationship between spirit and life by examining the unpublished texts (§§ 4 - 5), both those with an advanced draft such as "Metaphysik der symbolischen Formen", "Ziele und Wege der Wirklichkeitserkenntnis" and the fragments contained in texts relating to the "Basisphaenomene" or to history and art ("Geschichte, Mythos").

Quaderni materialisti n. 17, ISSN 1972-3792, ISBN 9788857564616, 2018

In this paper I show the historical roots of the Kantian concept of Wechselwirkung, tracing them ... more In this paper I show the historical roots of the Kantian concept of Wechselwirkung, tracing them in the Leibnitian concept of influxus, and in Newtonian physics, in particular in the law of action and reaction. Subsequently, I show that in the Critique of Pure Reason this concept has the function of making the thinkability of experience possible as an innervated unitary set of relationships not founded on autonomous substances; this is because, according to the phenomenological turn of transcendental philosophy, neither the subject nor the world are substances, but they define themselves on the basis of a reciprocal and inextricable reciprocal relationship

Frammenti di un istante, Next Book editore, 9788885949164, 2020

Tommaso d'Aquino, "De ente et essentia", selezione di passi e commento a cura di Massimiliano Crocco, prefazione di Luigi Imperato, Rogiosi editore, Napoli, ISBN 9788869503689, 2019

Ontologia relazionale. Ricerche sulla filosofia classica tedesca, Fedoa University Press, ISBN 978-88-6887-064-5 , 2019

In this essay I compare the Kantian transcendental idealism and the Marxian and Engelsian materia... more In this essay I compare the Kantian transcendental idealism and the Marxian and Engelsian materialist dialectics starting from the concept of Wechselwirkung. In Kantian transcendental idealism the concept of Wechselwirkung or "commercium" between agent and patient, by virtue of which everything in nature is in a condition of reciprocity, is the result of a relational conception of being and thought, none of which exists in absolute form, but only in the interaction between the parts. In Engels, on the other hand, nature is an immense field of relations, but not by virtue of the relational character of knowledge, but the relational one is a character of nature considered in itself, of which thought is part and expression. The possibility of a comparison and a fruitful exchange between transcendental thought and dialectic is identified by me starting from the possibility that the concept of reciprocal action is declined, in both cases, in the form of praxis, of concrete interaction between men in society as well as in the form of human action on nature and nature on man.

In questo saggio metto a confronto l’idealismo trascendentale kantiano e la dialettica materialistica marxiana ed engelsiana a partire dal concetto di azione reciproca. Nell’idealismo trascendentale kantiano il concetto di azione reciproca tra agente e paziente, in virtù della quale tutto nella natura è in una condizione di reciprocità, è frutto di una concezione relazionale dell’essere e del pensiero, nessuno dei quali esiste in forma assoluta, ma soltanto nell’interazione tra le parti. In Engels, invece, la natura è un immenso campo di relazioni, ma non in virtù del carattere relazionale del sapere, bensì quello relazionale è un carattere della natura in se stessa considerata, della quale il pensiero è parte ed espressione. La possibilità di un confronto e di un proficuo scambio tra pensiero trascendentale e dialettica è da me individuato a partire dalla possibilità che il concetto di azione reciproca venga declinato, in entrambi i casi, in forma di praxis, di interazione concreta tra gli uomini in società così come in forma di azione dell’uomo sulla natura e della natura sull’uomo.

Morfologie del rapporto parti/tutto. Totalità e complessità nelle filosofie dell'età moderna, Mimesis, Milano-Udine, ISBN 9788857560021 , 2019

My paper focuses on the relationship between the concepts of totality and contingency in the firs... more My paper focuses on the relationship between the concepts of totality and contingency in the first and third Critiques. In the first part, it illustrates the difference between the totality implied by the cosmological idea as the result of an ascending or descending series and that called into question by the theological idea, which postulates the existence of an ens realissimum, thanks to which also the reality empirical could be conceptually determined. Later, it analyzes on the one hand the legitimate use of the ideas of reason as heuristic tools capable of guiding scientific research, on the other the reflexive use of Judgment in the third Critique, which also has, in the teleological Judgment , a heuristic use, but also a more specific use, useful to understand the structuring of organized beings. Finally, the examination of the nature of the teleological Judgment carried out in the Antinomy of the teleological Judgment allows finally to see the ability to build a bridge between experience, knowledge and practical reason, of which it is not possible to determine dogmatically a common origin, placed in the unknowable substratum of nature. Precisely this unknowability is the reason for the impossibility, for teleology, of constituting itself as a science of the whole, without this precluding the possibility of mending (not eliminating), through a system of "crossings" of the faculties that compose it, the splits of our Gemüth.

CON-TEXTOS KANTIANOS. International Journal of Philosophy , 2019

In my paper I propose some considerations on §§ 79-84 of the Critique of Judgment, part of the Me... more In my paper I propose some considerations on §§ 79-84 of the Critique of Judgment, part of the
Methodology of the Teleological Judgment. At first I try to make clear the meaning of a
Methodenlehre of the Teleological Judgment, which I find in a meta-reflective activity of
Judgment; I then proceed to an analytical reading of the text in its various articulations, in which I face the questions concerning the specificity of the epistemological status of teleology, the possible
coexistence between finalism and mechanism in the science of nature, the origin of life, the
ultimate purpose of nature and the finale purpose of creation; finally, according to my
interpretation, the entire teleologia rationis humanae, which from natural teleology reaches moral
teleology through anthropology and the philosophy of history, in this section is rearticulated around
a new conceptual fulcrum of transcendental level, which can realize the effective connection
between these different parts of philosophy precisely because it does not give rise to a legislative
domain, but to a reflection on experience, and on the teleological causality peculiar to man

Hannah Arendt is a major philosopher of the 20th Century, who thought about the crisis of the fun... more Hannah Arendt is a major philosopher of the 20th Century, who thought about the crisis of the fundamentals of philosophy as the eclipse of politics and its sphere of action. The sphere, also called “public space” – English translation for the German Kantian and Jaspersian "Öffentilichkeit" – in which it is possible to make experience of the World as plural community of all thinking and acting human beings.
In one of her less famous and unusual book, "Men in Dark Times" (1968), she describes profiles of men who had the fortune to live in “dark times”. Firstly, those who experienced Totalitarianism or other oppressive regimes; but, above all, the historical time, which is like clouds upon the “table” of humanity.
According to Arendt, Martin Heidegger is the most important thinker who had diagnosed the epochal turn of philosophical crisis as political experience when he wrote, in "Being and Time" ("Sein und Zeit", 1927), “the light of Public obscures everything”.
Thus it is necessary to read the Arendtian thesis on Humanity as a strong attempt to overcome the limits of the Heideggerian perspective, especially the undistinguished status of his "Öffentilichkeit", as “the they”, “mere talks”, which is not only the social sphere – as he thought – but, above all, the political space in which men and women are acting individuals, expressing opinions. In this way, Arendt appears as one of the post-heideggerian thinker who reacted to the "Weltverlust", i.e. what she called worldlessness.

The second issue of "Shift. International Journal of Philosophical Studies", edited by Daniela Ca... more The second issue of "Shift. International Journal of Philosophical Studies", edited by Daniela Calabrò, Giovanna Callegari, Gian Paolo Faella, Luigi Imperato, Luca Scafoglio

D. Calabrò - L. Scafoglio (curr.), La tradizione dello spirito. Eredità hegeliane nel Novecento, Stamen, Roma ISBN 9788899871970, 2018

The essay provides an overview of the influence of Hegelian thought on Cassirer's philosophy. Sta... more The essay provides an overview of the influence of Hegelian thought on Cassirer's philosophy. Starting from the relational epistemology of "Substance and function", Cassirer becomes increasingly stronger in the need to move away from the subjectivist instances of modern philosophy and to found a philosophy of the spirit that investigates the epistemological presuppositions underlying the objectification of the spirit itself in the forms of human culture (language, myth, science). In carrying out this project, Hegel's paradigm of thought, deprived of its metaphysical demands, proves to be of decisive importance. In particular, Cassirer takes as its point of reference the idea of a phenomenological investigation on the spirit and that of the objective spirit. The essay concludes two paragraphs, dedicated respectively to the relationship between life and spirit and the Cassirerian interpretation of the Hegelian political philosophy and philosophy of history

Shift. International Journal oh Philosophical Studies , 2017

In this essay, I first analyze the problem of the constitution of subjectivity in Kantian philos... more In this essay, I first analyze the problem of the constitution of subjectivity in
Kantian philosophy (§1); the following is the question of the relationship between
moral subjectivity, moral law and author of the law (§ 2). Then I analyze,
through the doctrine of the fact of reason, the relationship between moral law
and its manifestation in pure practical reason (§ 3) and fi nally (§ 4) I proceed to
a characterization of moral subjectivity as openness to other free beings.

Keywords: Moral law, Autonomy, Subject, Relationship, Community

Quaderni del Sud - Quaderni calabresi, 2014

Introduzione all'antologia degli scritti del filosofo, antropologo e pedagogista e meridionalista... more Introduzione all'antologia degli scritti del filosofo, antropologo e pedagogista e meridionalista lucano Rocco Brienza (Rionero in Vulture, 1936 - Trieste, 2013)

Il cannocchiale. Rivista di studi filosofici, 2016

In the present study I illustrate the theme of revelation in the philosophy of Kant. At first I g... more In the present study I illustrate the theme of revelation in the philosophy of Kant. At first I give a definition of the concept of freedom and I outline its main implications (§ 1); later I will highlight how, through the concept of freedom and the possibility of evil (§ 2), we can reach the formulation of the moral law (§ 3), and how from moral law we can access the religious problem through the mediation offered by the concept of moral order (§ 4). Finally, I will question the differences between rational religion and revealed religion, exploring the tensions that exist between them, but also reflecting on the elements that are common and clarifying what tools the philosophy has to think about the revelation (§ 5).

Quaderni di Antropologia e Scienze Umane, I, 1, Mar 2013

The paper analyzes the interpretation of Hegel's philosophy given by the Italian anthropologist o... more The paper analyzes the interpretation of Hegel's philosophy given by the Italian anthropologist of the nineteenth century Vincenzo Padula. Even with the aid of unpublished documentary sources, it could be shown that, despite some misunderstanding, Padula had direct knowledge of the Hegelian text and its interpretation gives rise, in the context of nineteenth-century Italian studies on Hegel traces of novelty

Il Cannocchiale, 1, 2013, 2013

Luigi Imperato The Limits of the Reason and Possibilities of the Philosophy Keywords: Teleolog... more Luigi Imperato
The Limits of the Reason and Possibilities of the Philosophy
Keywords: Teleology, System, Limits, Reason, Freedom

The philosophy is, according to Kant, a kind of knowledge ex principiis of systematic nature. The system is an all complete in itself, namely an organic whole. In many places in his work, however, Kant also states that philosophy, as a mere idea of a complete science, never occurs in practice. This contradiction is explained by the fact that philosophy is indeed a whole as a system of principles of knowledge a priori, but, on the one hand, it can not know reality in its ultimate foundations, and on the other hand, it can order the experience on the basis of the intellectual concepts only formaliter, and not also materialiter. The limits of reason are the cause of incompleteness of philosophy, which must stop in front of the supersensible, even if this stop is also an opening to the same supersensible. The concept of the system has then not only theoretical implications, but also practical: the philosophy, as system of pure reason, is a teleologia rationis humanae. The concepts of a organic totality involved by the idea of system allows such a transition from the theoretical to the practical consideration. The fulfillment of the system as teleologia rationis humanae is so constituted by the moral, where the opening to the theoretical concept of the supersensible takes shape thanks to the concept of freedom, even if it remains unattainable in terms of knowledge.