Forme, relazioni, oggetti. Saggio sulla metafisica del Tractatus

Paradigmi. Rivista di Critica Filosofica, 2012

This paper presents and discusses some recent interpretations of the form of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. Borutti (2010) interprets the Tractatus as a sort of maze, where its propositions – far from leading to a single conclusion – represent different paths and (intersecting) ways of elucidating the essence of language and reality. Bazzocchi (2010), by contrast, describes the Tractatus as having a tree-like structure, its main propositions being the roots of the tree and the decimal ones branches and leaves, different levels of comment on the main propositions. On the view advocated by Diamond and Conant (2010), the Tractatus has a ladder structure (where its propositions are rungs) through which it guides its reader to get rid of philosophical confusions. The paper finally briefly discusses how these readings deal with the question of Tractarian nonsense.

Quaestio, 2005

Plato is the founder of a form of metaphysics, which has had great success in the Western World. Having given the historic and philosophic «Sitz im Leben» together with a brief consideration of some hermeneutical problems, the article presents the gnoseological and anthropological framework of the «theory of ideas». The body of the article examines the dialectics, and then it looks at the complex «unwritten doctrines» and platonic theology. An evaluation of Plato’s place in the history of metaphysics ends the article.

in 'Veritas', 54/3 (2009), pp. 156-172., 2010

Zaccaria Pasqualigo developed his doctrine concerning the nature of metaphysics and of its object in the Twenties of the 17th century. It belongs to the group of reactions, in the Catholic milieu, to the theses propounded by Francisco Suárez on this topic. Pasqualigo develops a metaphysics whose formal object is not the transcendental being, but the being considered as the way of being of the 'quidditas rei omnino abstrahens a materia'. However, the ‘prescinding from matter’ that is proper of this being is not understood by Pasqualigo as an indifference to what is material and to what is spiritual. On the contrary, according to this author the being that metaphysics deals with is intrinsically material. Therefore, metaphysics deals with material being considered apart from matter purely by means of an operation of the mind. As a result, according to Pasqualigo metaphysics is a science superior to physics, but it is not a science superior to rational theology; actually, Pasqualigo’s metaphysics is almost completely separated from whatever kind of theology.

Il ricamo di Dio, 2017

Saggio che propone un rendiconto generale delle occorrenze lessicali afferenti alla semantica del “tessere”, “annodare” o “sciogliere” all’interno delle opere dantesche in volgare, con particolare riguardo per la “Commedia”, ponendole a confronto con fonti classiche, scritturali ed esegetiche.

S. Piazzese, Dal thaûma tragico. Alcune riflessioni su Metafisica concreta, in «IlPequod», anno V/10, dicembre 2024, pp. 63-72, ISSN: 2724-0738, 2024

Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, 2018

This essay tries to identify the fundamentals of the metaphysics Toni Negri elaborates in relation to the changes within the capitalist system. In the domain of real subsumption, we individuate in the absolute contingency the field of the ontological constitution. This field makes the Transcendental idealism the theoretical opponent of Negri’s metaphysical position, since the Transcendental idealism is generally based on demands concerning measurements and hierarchization.

in A. C. Varzi (ed.), Metafisica. Classici contemporanei, Roma, Laterza, 2008

Da sempre uno dei settori principali della filosofia, la metafisica è oggi al centro di un rinnovato e accresciuto interesse. Soprattutto nell'ambito della cosiddetta filosofia analitica, ma non solo, gli ultimi anni hanno registrato un'impressionante progressione nel numero di studi e ricerche dedicati ai temi classici di questo settore, e dopo la «svolta linguistica» del primo Novecento e la «svolta cognitiva» degli ultimi decenni, il nuovo secolo sembra essere decollato all'insegna di un'enfatica e per certi aspetti inattesa «svolta metafisica».