Papers by Mariafilomena Anzalone
Autoinganno e divisione del sé: una questione cognitiva o un problema morale?
Ágalma Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica, 2024
One of the arguments traditionally used to explain how self-deception is possible is that of the ... more One of the arguments traditionally used to explain how self-deception is possible is that of the self-division, which, however, has taken very different forms within the philosophical perspectives that have adopted it. In this essay, taking into consideration the influential analyses carried out by Adam Smith and Donald Davidson, we will investigate two of these forms, with the aim of showing that they are closely connected to two alternative ways of understanding the nature and origin of self-deception, qualifying it as either a predominantly cognitive issue or an essentially moral problem.
Patografie 1922-2022 - in "Studi Jaspersiani" , 2023
Faced with the scant interest psychiatry of his time showed in patient’s biographical histories, ... more Faced with the scant interest psychiatry of his time showed in patient’s biographical histories, Jaspers draws attention to this important resource of clinical practice and psychopathological investigation. In this context, he makes, over the years, a series of methodological observations on the writing of biographical histories of the sick, dedicating,
in General Psychopathology, a specific paragraph to what he calls the «art» of writing
Krankengeschichten. In this essay, by retracing some of the cores of Jaspers’ reflection on
biographische Krankengeschichte, we will dwell on the critical points that emerge in
its realisation and the solutions that Jaspers identifies to overcome them. We will defend
the thesis that his indications on how to draw up good and useful Krankengeschichten,
rather than aiming at constructing a rigid canon of medical-biographical narration, have
the aim of avoiding two specular risks: that of indeterminateness and that of arbitrariness.
Moral Dilemmas. Trolley problem and beyond. "Paradigmi", 2022
Agents who have experienced a moral conflict often perceive a particularly strong discrepancy bet... more Agents who have experienced a moral conflict often perceive a particularly strong discrepancy between a negative emotional state and the awareness that, if they could ever go back, they would confirm the choice made. This dissonance is seen as typical of the feeling of regret, to which Bernard Williams has drawn attention. In this essay, I will investigate his main claims in the light of some objections raised by Richard Mervyn Hare and Philippa Foot. In particular, I will explore the meaning of regret in those cases in which the agents believe they have acted for the best or at any rate according to the principles of a coherent ethical theory. To this end, I will review some cases of moral conflict in which some ethically valid reasons for subordinating one moral obligation to the other seem to be available to the agents.
RECOGNITION OF LIFE. Theoretical, Ethical and Political Perspectives, "ITINERARI", LX, 2021
In Adam Smith's ethics of sympathy, recognition is closely linked to seeking approval and esteem ... more In Adam Smith's ethics of sympathy, recognition is closely linked to seeking approval and esteem from other social actors. In the light of the undoubtedly great importance granted by Smith to social approval a series of questions arise, such as: Does the search for recognition necessarily imply the adoption by the individual of mimetic behaviours which, by replicating what is socially shared, guarantee approval and esteem? And to what extent does mimesis require a capacity for fiction? In this regard, is it not the case that individual moral evaluations risk being reduced to the conformist reverberation of those of society? The aim of this essay is first of all to understand in which terms Smith, in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, understands the link between mimesis, fiction and recognition. To this end, the role played by mimesis and fiction will be scrutinised along the various interconnected dimensions that structure the complex phenomenon of recognition: the emotional, the one linked to public success, and the moral one. Finally, in the light of the peculiar account on mimesis developed by Smith on aesthetic grounds, also the ethical implications of this link will be discussed.
The Owl's Flight, 2021
Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibli... more Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de.
Estetica. Studi e ricerche, 2018
La nostra incapacità di capire il punto di vista degli altri, le loro esperienze e i loro sentime... more La nostra incapacità di capire il punto di vista degli altri, le loro esperienze e i loro sentimenti sono alla base del pregiudizio, del conflitto e della disuguaglianza: l'empatia è l'antidoto di cui abbiamo bisogno» 1 . Con queste parole, il filosofo sociale Roman Krznaric, autore del volume Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It 2 , fondatore dell'Empathy Museum 3 , esprime la convinzione che l'empatia, praticata a livello collettivo, possa contrastare la logica del "noi" contro "loro" su cui si basano le politiche di esclusione sociale, le forme più o meno esplicite di razzismo, così come gli attuali movimenti sovranisti.
Al centro di questo saggio c'è il confronto tra due medici e pensatori: Karl Jaspers e Viktor von... more Al centro di questo saggio c'è il confronto tra due medici e pensatori: Karl Jaspers e Viktor von Weizsäcker. I loro rapporti, a lungo caratterizzati da stima e reciproco rispetto, si interrompono negli anni Cinquanta in seguito alla durissima polemica intrapresa da Jaspers negli scritti Zur Kritik der Psychoanalyse (1950), Die Idee des Arztes (1953), Arzt und Patient (1953). Weizsäcker viene accusato di aspirare ad una «rivoluzione totale della medicina», nefasta per la scienza e pericolosa per i malati, che Jaspers intende contrastare pubblicamente. Nel saggio, prendendo le mosse da quanto Jaspers scrive sulle ricerche di Weizsäcker nella quarta edizione della Psicopatologia generale, proverò a ricostruire le ragioni di questa controversia in cui viene in primo piano l'interrogazione, sempre attuale, sull'incerto statuto epistemologico della medicina.
Hegel-Jahrbuch, 2016
Thema meines Vortrages ist die Bedeutung und Rolle Kants für Hegels erste Überlegungen über die P... more Thema meines Vortrages ist die Bedeutung und Rolle Kants für Hegels erste Überlegungen über die Psychologie und die psychologischen Strukturen des Subjekts.¹ Hegels Interesse an der Psychologie besteht seine gesamte Jugendzeit über fort und ndet im Manuskript zur Psychologie und Transzendentalphilosophie aus dem Jahr 1794 ein erstes bedeutsames Zeugnis. Dieses Manuskript steht im Mittelpunkt meines Beitrages, der sich in zwei Teile gliedert. Zunächst werde ich das Manuskript analysieren, seinen Inhalt darstellen und dabei insbesondere auf die darin enthaltenen Verweise auf Kant eingehen.² Im zweiten Teil werde ich den Sinn dieser Verweise aufzeigen und der Frage nachgehen, inwiefern Hegels Studium der kantischen Philosophie zur Entwicklung seiner Psychologie beigetragen hat.
In his works, and especially in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel often uses literary references... more In his works, and especially in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel often uses literary references. Among them, we can find also some characters that, in Hegel's view, embody a worst aspect of the modern subject, "the ethical infirmity", the inability to act, to realize themselves objectifying their inner determinations. Characters of this kind are Allwill and Woldemar, protagonists of two homonymous novels of Jacobi, that Hegel critically analyzes in Faith and Knowledge. Through the Hegelian analysis of these two literary figures, we will try to highlight the features and causes of this "ethical infirmity", showing how Hegel see it as a one of the diseases to which it is structurally exposed the modern subjectivity.
Libertà, coscienza e legge morale in Karl Heinrich Heydenreich
- Dalla “Seelenlehre” alla “Geisteslehre”: la psicologia hegeliana a Norimberga
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Papers by Mariafilomena Anzalone
in General Psychopathology, a specific paragraph to what he calls the «art» of writing
Krankengeschichten. In this essay, by retracing some of the cores of Jaspers’ reflection on
biographische Krankengeschichte, we will dwell on the critical points that emerge in
its realisation and the solutions that Jaspers identifies to overcome them. We will defend
the thesis that his indications on how to draw up good and useful Krankengeschichten,
rather than aiming at constructing a rigid canon of medical-biographical narration, have
the aim of avoiding two specular risks: that of indeterminateness and that of arbitrariness.