Works by Piergiorgio Donatelli
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- Wittgenstein and Forms of Life: Constellation and Mechanism.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2023 -Philosophies 9 (1):4.The notion of forms of life points to a crucial aspect of Wittgenstein’s philosophical approach that challenges an influential line in the philosophical tradition. He portrays intellectual activities in terms of a cohesion of things held together in linguistic scenes rooted in the lives of people and the facts of the world. The original inspiration with which Wittgenstein worked on this approach is still relevant today in the recent technological turn associated with AI. He attacked a conception that treated human (...) activities as material to be examined by external models of rationality. Along with other modernists such as Musil, he saw the danger of losing faith in human intellectual and moral capacities. In contrast, Wittgenstein elucidates and substantively defends an idea of forms of life in which the great normative enterprises, from science to the works of the imagination, are based on our individual capacity to take the next step from a normative authority that rests entirely with us, as agents who can claim it in the name of others, in the name of arithmetic, in the name of our native language, in the name of justice, and so on. Forms of life are the place to look to claim this authority over the mistrust we feel compelled to cultivate in our human endeavors. (shrink)No categories
- Introduzione a Mill.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2007 - Roma: Laterza.
- Moral Perfectionism and Virtue.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2019 -Critical Inquiry 45 (2):332-350.
- Mill’s Perfectionism.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2006 -Prolegomena 5 (2):149-164.J. S. Mill lays great emphasis on the importance of the notion of the individual as a progressive being. The idea that we need to conceive the self as an object of cultivation and perfection runs through Mill’s writings on various topics, and has played a certain role in recent interpretations. In this paper I propose a specific interpretation of Mill’s understanding of the self, along the lines of what Stanley Cavell identifies as a “perfectionist” concern for the self. Various (...) texts by Mill, ranging from the Logic to On Liberty, show an understanding of the self in which both the theoretical and the practical domain are presented as being internally connected to the transformation of the self. Mill elaborates a criticism of a notion of truth articulated by doctrines having a life independent of the self, as well as a notion of choice which is not the expression of one’s inner self. This internal relation of truth and choice to the self generates a special dialectic within the self, which Mill explores in On Liberty’s second and third chapters by means of several contrasts, such as passive vs. active knowledge, living vs. dead beliefs, or being oneself vs. liking and choosing in crowds. (shrink)
- The Tractatus and the ethical tradition.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2022 -Revue Internationale de Philosophie 300 (2):93-105.Je pose une question concernant la place du Tractatus de Wittgenstein dans la tradition éthique. Le Tractatus et la tradition éthique Les remarques que je ferai sont à considérer dans le contexte d'une interprétation du Tractatus qui a été qualifiée de lecture résolue de cette œuvre, ainsi que de la philosophie de Wittgenstein en général Comme l'a écrit Cora Diamond, le Tractatus travaille sur la libération des besoins et des désirs philosophiques, une libération de la philosophie effectuée avec des outils (...) philosophiques : la situation du Tractatus est similaire à celle évoquée dans les Recherches et dans l'œuvre ultérieure, qui se consacre également au projet de se libérer de la philosophie pour le bien de la philosophie. (shrink)No categories
- Bringing truth home : Mill, Wittgenstein, Cavell, and moral perfectionism.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2006 - In Andrew Norris,The claim to community: essays on Stanley Cavell and political philosophy. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. pp. 38-57.
- Forms of Life, Forms of Reality.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2015 -Nordic Wittgenstein Review 4:43-62.The article explores aspects of the notion of forms of life in the Wittgensteinian tradition especially following Iris Murdoch’s lead. On the one hand, the notion signals the hardness and inexhaustible character of reality, as the background needed in order to make sense of our lives in various ways. On the other, the hardness of reality is the object of a moral work of apprehension and deepening to the point at which its distinctive character dissolves into the family of connections (...) we have gained for ourselves. The two movements of thought are connected and necessary. (shrink)
- Note from the Editors.Daniele Moyal-Sharrock &Piergiorgio Donatelli -2015 -Nordic Wittgenstein Review 4.This special issue on Forms of Life was conceived on the top floor of a café overlooking one of Rome's wonderful Piazzas, after a conference, hosted by Piergiorgio Donatelli, on Forms of Life and Ways of Living. Piergiorgio, Sandra Laugier and I thought the subject cried out for a small collection of essays in which several voices would elucidate the genesis, use and potential of Wittgenstein's concept of form of life -- and we committed to producing it. This is the (...) fruit of our Roman resolution. Danièle Moyal-Sharrock. (shrink)
- Discussione su "Making it Explicit" di Robert Brandom.Piergiorgio Donatelli,Paolo Leonardi &Carlo Penco -1999 -Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 12 (1):179-196.
- Aldo Giorgio Gargani's Wittgenstein.Piergiorgio Donatelli &Luigi Perissinotto -2010 -Iris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 2 (3):231-244.
- Bioetica e laicità.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2010 -Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 23 (3):479-490.No categories
- Diritti e identità nella cultura morale moderna.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2005 -Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (2):245-252.No categories
- Dove va la bioetica.Piergiorgio Donatelli -forthcoming -la Società Degli Individui.No categories
- Environment, democracy, and self-transformation.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2025 - In Michael Campbell,The philosophy of transformative experience. New York, NY: Routledge.No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Ethics, Imagination and the Concept of Human Nature.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2008 -Rivista di Filosofia 99 (2):229-262.
- Etica: i classici, le teorie e le linee evolutive.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2015 - Torino: Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a..No categories
- Eugenio Lecaldano: l'etica, la storia della filosofia e l'impegno civile.Piergiorgio Donatelli &Maurizio Mori (eds.) -2010 - Firenze: Le lettere.No categories
- Filosofia Analitica 1993 Bilanci E Prospettive.Piergiorgio Donatelli &Luciano Floridi (eds.) -1993 - Lithos.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Il lato ordinario della vita: filosofia ed esperienza comune.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2018 - Bologna: Il mulino.No categories
- John Stuart Mill e la cultura del sé.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2006 -Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 19 (2):319-330.
- L’etica analitica dal punto di vista del soggetto.Piergiorgio Donatelli &Lorenzo Greco -2007 - In Annalisa Coliva,Filosofia analitica: temi e problemi. Roma: Carocci. pp. 331-50.
- L'etica e la concezione espressivista della mente.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2013 -Rivista di Filosofia 104 (2):183-208.No categories
- La filosofia e la vita etica.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2020 - Torino: Giulio Einaudi editore.No categories
- L'esperienza morale della città.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2011 -Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 24 (3):515-532.No categories
- Loos, Musil, Wittgenstein, and the recovery of human life.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2017 - In Zumhagen-Yekplé Karen & LeMahieu Michael,Wittgenstein and Modernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Export citation Bookmark
- Lo sfondo del liberalismo e gli inizi della vita umana.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2013 -Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 26 (2):225-238.No categories
- Le storie dell'etica: tradizioni e problemi.Piergiorgio Donatelli (ed.) -2022 - Roma: Carocci editore.No categories
- La vie des mots.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2011 -Revue Internationale de Philosophie 256 (2):129-150.
- La vita umana in prima persona.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2012 - Roma: Laterza.No categories
- Manières d'être humain.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2009 -Cités 38 (2):47.Je vais évoquer ici la pertinence des concepts d’éthique au moyen de quelques réflexions sur le concept d’être humain. C’est là une notion cruciale parce que nous comprenons ce que signifie s’engager dans certaines activités dans la mesure où elles sont perçues comme humaines. La pensée morale est l’une de ces activités ; et par « moralité »..No categories
- "Natural Goodness" di Philippa Foot. Discussione.Piergiorgio Donatelli,Mario Ricciardi &Michael Thompson -2003 -Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 16 (1):179-200.
- Nota introduttiva.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2008 -Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 21 (1):41-46.No categories
- Reshaping Ethics after Wittgenstein.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2013 -Wittgenstein-Studien 4 (1).This article suggests a reading of the significance of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus for ethics, in the light of Cora Diamond’s resolute reading. The contrasts between sense and nonsense and between ethics and science are commented on and are connected to a further contrast between a specialized response to language and the world and an unspecialized response characteristic of the humanistic disciplines. The Tractatus is seen as a work which diagnoses the loss of such a fully human unspecialized sense of things and (...) which wishes to recover this possibility for its reader. On the basis of such reading, the article also suggests how to connect the significance of the later Wittgenstein for ethics with the Tractatus. A connection can be established by following Iris Murdoch’s notion of conceptual clarification. (shrink)
- Trasformazioni del concetto di essere umano.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2008 -Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 21 (1):83-102.No categories
- The Emergence of Sexuality di Arnold Davidson.Piergiorgio Donatelli &Patrick Singy -2005 -Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (2):433-444.
- Valore e possibilità di vita: Martha Nussbaum.Piergiorgio Donatelli -2001 -Rivista di Filosofia 92 (1):97-120.
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