25
OCT
2014

Parrhesia-II. In-depth: Dimensioni socio-religiose della parrhesia giudaica nella tradizione linguistica dei testi biblici (Gian Luigi Prato)

Abstract This paper shows that while the Greek parrhesia is above all concerned with the public and political spheres, the one of the Jews integrates and directs both spheres towards a different perspective, in which the religious dimension is strongest. In this new dimension parrhesi
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06
JUN
2015

Parrhesia-II. In-depth: Il coraggio della verità: Michel Foucault (Sandro Chignola)

Abstract This essay attempts to examine Foucault’s use of the concept of parrhesia and to understand why he makes it so central to his interpretation of classical and late classical thought. Such an interpretation is not in fact random or impolitic, but actually of critical importance
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25
OCT
2014

Parrhesia-II. In-depth: Il parresiasta punito, ossia Momus di Leon Battista Alberti (Dante Fedele)

Abstract This contribution is a reading of Momus by L.B. Alberti which highlights the “freedom” with which the main character, Momo, interacts with Jove and the ambiguous status of the “truth” of his words. After having shown briefly that Momo is described as a parrhesiasta on a numbe
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06
JUN
2015

Parrhesia-II. In-depth: Kant y el ¡Sapere aude! (Lorena Cebolla-Sanahuja)

Abstract For Kant the duty to make public, rather than private, use of reason entails the possibility of contributing to the progress of humanity.  It implies an opposition between the use of reason according to the norm and that against the norm, or the ‘illegal’ use of r
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06
JUN
2015

Parrhesia-II. In-depth: La rinuncia alla parrhesia: il caso di Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Andrea Aguti)

Abstract This paper encapsulates the Evangelical theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s reasons for working with the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany and, when arrested and tortured, hiding his own position. This dissimulation is understood as an example of renouncing parrhesia, for which Bo
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01
NOV
2018

Redemption-I. Presentation (Tiziana Faitini)

Abstract The entry explores some aspects of the history of the concept of ‘redemption, focusing on its juridical background. Attention is given to the close relationship between the interpretation of Jesus’ salvific action by early Christian authors, on the one hand, and the pra
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01
NOV
2018

Redemption-II. In-depth: Gotteszorn und Nächstenliebe. Konzepte von Erlösung und Vergeltung in der frühneuzeitlichen Moraltheologie und Strafrechtslehre (Harald Maihold)

Abstract God’s wrath and mercy. Concepts of “redemption” and “retribution” in early Modern moral theology and criminal Law The religious concept of redemption contributed significantly to the shaping of public criminal law in the Early Modern Age. This pa
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01
NOV
2018

Redemption-II. In-depth: “Non uscirai di là finché non avrai pagato fino all’ultimo spicciolo”. Esegesi di Mt 5, 25-26 e origini dell’idea di purgatorio (Milena Mariani)

Abstract “You will not be released until you have paid the last penny”. Exegesis of Mt: 5, 25-26 and origins of the idea of ​​purgatory Since the publication of J. Le Goff’s highly successful The Birth of Purgatory, in 1981, much research has been done, from various histor
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01
NOV
2018

Redemption-II. In-depth: “Sarete riscattati senza denaro” (Is 52,3). La redenzione nell’Antico Testamento tra metafora teologica e linguaggio giuridico ibrido (Gian Luigi Prato)

Abstract “Without money you shall be redeemed” (Is 52:3). Redemption in the Old Testament between theological metaphor and hybrid legal language Most Old Testament texts dealing with redemption and ransom use legal language, even when God is the redeemer, although in this
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01
NOV
2018

Redemption-II. In-depth: Il dogma della reversibilità. Colpa, supplizio e sofferenza in Joseph de Maistre (Andrea Aguti)

Abstract The dogma of “reversibility”. Guilt, torment and suffering in Joseph de Maistre’s works This paper connects Joseph de Maistre’s providentialist interpretation of the French Revolution in his Considerations on France (1796) with his thoughts on the problem of
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