L’abbé Galiani e il problema dell’etica tra politica e pedagogia
The Italian philosopher of the Enlightenment Ferdinando Galiani was an eclectic writer, whose works ranged across a great variety of subjects, such as philosophy, economics, politics and education. As a result of this eclecticism, in both the style and the lines of argument of his writing, Galiani’s...
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Studi Francesi
2016
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | The Italian philosopher of the Enlightenment Ferdinando Galiani was an eclectic writer, whose works ranged across a great variety of subjects, such as philosophy, economics, politics and education. As a result of this eclecticism, in both the style and the lines of argument of his writing, Galiani’s thought remains partly to be explored. Indeed, while his theories on money’s value and liberalism were very popular in his time and are still the object of several studies, his philosophical ideas merit further consideration.In this paper I particularly concentrate on Galiani’s moral philosophy, arguing in the first part that his ethics results from a combination of elements taken from philanthropism and Machiavelli’s philosophy; the most relevant among them is the anthropological pessimism, according to which human beings are mostly either too lazy and stupid to recognize that the public good helps to further their personal interests, or too egoist to really promote it if not under constraint of a sovereign and after having subscribed to a social pact. In the second part I will maintain that this combination of philanthropism and Machiavellism in Galiani’s ethics represents the founding principle of his entire thought, accounting for his political, pedagogical, religious and economical orientations. |
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