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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abstract The mandate of  the redeemer and the duties of the redeemed. The origins of a paradigm of legitimization of economic and political relations (II – V century)  In this paper I present a wide range of patristic texts, which – through theological discussion of the “divine

Abstract Redemptio ab hostibus and redemptio a domino in Roman law This essay presents a synthetic historical account of the Roman juridical institution of the redemptio ab hostibus and the redemptio a domino, which allowed people who had been enslaved in war, or as debtors, to regain