Filosofia Morale/Moral Philosophy

Editoriale

Anna Donise — 2025-04-09

Translation and Political Ideology in Bernardo Segni

Franco Biasutti — 2025-04-09

The Aristotelian tradition remained strong throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, so the Renaissance can still be considered an Aristotelian era. When studying Renaissance Aristotelianism, it is important to distinguish between Scolasticism and Aristotle’s study of moral philosophy as part of the humanities, which includes grammar, rhetoric, poetics, and history. A key aspect of the humanists’ work was their commitment to translation. Segni believed that the Vulgate translations of Aristotelian works were useful for anyone involved in governing a state, as easier access to the text would help to correct many errors resulting from a misunderstanding of political affairs. According to Segni, one of the most frequently committed errors was the belief that liberty could only exist if the government was in the hands of the people. However, Aristotle’s teaching shows that the best form of government is one in which the management of public affairs is entrusted to the best people. It is the man who is clearly superior to all others due to his heroic virtue who should have supremacy over others. According to Segni, ethics and politics belong to the same sphere and are therefore subjects of the same discipline. However, architectural science belongs to ethics and acts as a guide to all other moral disciplines, including political science.

Ruralizzare l’uomo. Prospettive heideggeriane per un’etica dell’abitare

Luca Pantaleone — 2025-04-09

The Wohnunsfrage (the question of dwelling) occupies a central role within Heidegger’s philosophy, touching on various key points: from the relationship between man and language to that with technique, from the interpretation of the “thing” to the metaphysics and the history of being.
The aim of this contribution is to investigate the perspectives that the Heideggerian idea of dwelled space opens up in connection with the ethics and history of being, verifying its relationship with the principles of equality and identity in order to investigate the relation between the way of modern building and the culture/tradition of peoples in the globalized world.

Suffering and resistance. Remarks on critical theory and moral thought in Adorno

Luca Scafoglio — 2025-04-09

This paper explores three levels at which Adorno’s Critical Theory engages moral thought, by constantly connecting normative and descriptive aspects: a) as a moral critique of bourgeois life, i.e., a critique of real modes of subject’s relation to itself, things and other people, invoking moral-normative criteria; b) as a critique of the internal normativity of bourgeois life, which turns out to be intertwined with domination, and c) as a critique of modern moral theories, which themselves prove to be connected with the same social relations and grounded in identity thought. Making a demarcation with respect to both the tradition of virtue and the good, and that of the ethics of norms, it is argued that Adorno’s proposal of an ethics of “resistance” moves between a contextualism of “damaged life” and a peculiar “agent-based” moral theory, centred on the self-reflexive movement of a situated agent. The latter finds itself entangled within relations of domination, as such committed to revoking its own monadic constitution and inclined to give voice to the oppressed, “inside” and “outside” himself.

Bioetica clinica: un approccio centrato sul rispetto per la dignità del paziente come persona

Corrado Viafora — 2025-04-09

This essay is inspired by the insights gained in over three decades of engagement within clinical contexts. Not only has such engagement been particularly significant to understand the moral experience embedded within clinical practice, but it has also been instrumental in shaping a bioethical approach capable of interpreting that moral experience. A first, fundamental insight is that, in view of the radical challenges currently moved against the constitutive aims of clinical practice, we need to interpret them in the light of an ethical principle that is also functional for clinical practice. This principle could be the idea of human dignity, shaped in terms of respect for the patient as a person. Within this perspective, particular emphasis is placed on the distinction between recognising every patient as a person, with a commitment to respecting her dignity, and justifying what this recognition entails in specific clinical contexts. This underscores the need for an argumentative framework that leverages the idea of human dignity to justify ethical judgments in the highly sensitive domain of clinical practice. The essay aims to explain the rationale behind this framework and the stages through which it develops. As contemporary clinical practice increasingly faces problems of a distinctly ethical nature, requiring the application of the inherent logic of moral reasoning, the importance of fostering a genuine ethical-argumentative mindset among health professionals emerges as the central goal of the “critical companionship” offered by a philosophically oriented clinical bioethics.

Introduzione

Giovanna Costanzo — 2025-04-09

Intelligenza Artificiale e Agenti: sfide e opportunità etiche

Stefania Costantini — 2025-04-09

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now a constant presence in our daily lives. From home automation to social networks, from navigation systems to healthcare, AI-powered technologies are transforming the way we live, work, and interact. But like any powerful tool, AI brings with it opportunities and risks. In this article, we will briefly review the history and main developments of AI, first of all Intelligent Agents, explore the main areas in which AI is making a difference, including healthcare, and discuss the pitfalls to avoid and the crucial role of awareness in the use of intelligent technologies.

Fact checking, democrazia e giustizia sociale

Nadia De Sario — 2025-04-09

Is free expression damaging our democracy? Or is free expression the essence of our societies? The fact checking mechanisms and all its complications present us with a challenge on the very concept of democracy, which has changed during centuries. For these reasons, the paper tries to explore the limits between free speech and hate speech, all questioning the justice of fact checking also referring to the different ideas of democracy.

Metaverse: Who Will Be Excluded from Higher Education?

Lisa Grover — 2025-04-09

The premise of this paper is that using the metaverse for higher education presents a new inclusivity challenge. The paper presents a counter-example to the argument that the metaverse will increase accessibility. This paper argues that visually induced motion sickness has the potential to become a new form of disability discrimination. This barrier is one that needs addressing if access to the metaverse becomes more prevalent in higher education.

Robot Sociali per l’Assistenza: Inganni Pro-sociali ed Etica

Silvia Rossi — 2025-04-09

Social Assistive Robotics aims to improve people’s lives by providing assistance through interaction. There are settings where these robots need to encourage people to comply with instructions and advice, and also show empathetic reactions, which is a crucial aspect for achieving effective behaviour change. Such behaviors can be configured as deceptive. Deception is a complex behavior in human interactions and can compromise people’s trust. In this paper, we introduce different types of potentially deceptive behaviors that can be used in socially assistive robotics and discuss the ethical implications in human-robot interaction.

Robotics and AI for social justice: new perspectives between assistance, education and ethical reflection

Valeria Seidita — 2025-04-09

Artificial intelligence and robotics are changing the way we approach societal challenges, offering new opportunities to improve inclusion, access to care and ethical reflection. Although concepts such as introspection, consciousness and ethical reflection are the subject of wide philosophical debate, the aim of this paper is not to discuss them theoretically, but to explore how some of their dimensions can be captured in simplified computational models, with practical applications in the context of AI and robotics. This article explores the potential of these technologies to promote social justice. Two main application areas are analyzed: assisting vulnerable individuals, such as the elderly and people with disabilities, and the ability of robots to promote awareness and change in educational contexts. Experiments in the healthcare and school sectors will be used to demonstrate how technology can be used to optimize services and to stimulate critical reflection on the dynamics of exclusion and acceptance. However, the potential of AI and robotics comes with significant ethical challenges, such as the risk of bias and new forms of surveillance. The work emphasizes the importance of a responsible approach to technological development so that innovation can be guided by principles of justice and inclusion rather than purely economic or efficiency logics.

Giustizia, responsabilità, singolarità. Riflessi etico-giuridici dell’intelligenza artificiale a partire da Emmanuel Levinas

Sara Pautasso — 2025-04-09

The rise of predictive justice challenges the ontological foundations of legal decision-making, replacing deliberative reasoning with algorithmic probability. This study interrogates the epistemic limits of AI in law through Emmanuel Levinas’ethics of alterity, arguing that algorithmic systems, by prioritizing efficiency over singularity, risk reinforcing structural injustices. A Levinasian perspective urges a juridical paradigm where technology remains subordinated to the irreducible ethical demand of the Other.

Maria Russo, Sartre. Vita di un filosofo radicale, Carocci, Roma 2024, pp. 396

Paolo Maria Aruffo — 2025-04-09

A. Volpe, Solidarietà. Filosofia di un’idea sociale, Carocci, Roma 2023, pp. 126.

Giuseppe De Ruvo — 2025-04-09

Arianne Shahvisi, Arguing for a Better World. How Philosophy Can Help Us Fight for Social Justice, Penguin Books, New York, 2023, pp. 293

Francisco M. Ortiz-Delgado — 2025-04-09

Hartmut Rosa, Indisponibilità. All’origine della risonanza, Queriniana, Brescia 2024, pp. 176.

Cecilia Vergani — 2025-04-09