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Enrico Berti, a renowned expert in ancient philosophy and one of the most important Aristotelians of the 20th century, passed away in January 2022 in Padua. Born in Valeggio sul Mincio, he studied philosophy at the University of Padua and was a professor at several Italian universities. Berti received numerous awards and distinctions for his outstanding work as a professor and researcher. His philosophical legacy is characterized by his systematic approach, his recovery of Aristotelian practical rationality, and his defense of a "humble metaphysics." His departure is an irreparable loss for the philosophical community. [Extracted from the article]

The phenomena of self-consciousness and self-knowledge play a central role in Kant's philosophy. Their relevance is not restricted to the field of theoretical philosophy, nor to the sphere of a priori knowledge. The analysis of empirical forms of self-knowledge and of practical forms of self-consciousness plays a highly salient role in Kant's project as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses Heidegger's criticism of Kant's conception of freedom as a peculiar kind of cause. With his view of freedom Kant consummates the central tendencies of traditional ontology, ultimately arising from the Greek understanding of Being in terms of "constant presence". But the causal view does not do justice to the deeper roots of freedom in the transcendence of Dasein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I develop the broad outlines of an investigation which analyses the sense and the meaning of the concepts of "common good" and "general interest" in the rhetoric of present day government. I will also try to respond to the question of whether both concepts are perfectly interchangeable in the public debate or, on the contrary, the concepts in fact derive from antagonistic backgrounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this interview E. Berti speaks about his early philosophical career, his rediscovery of Aristotle's dialectics as based on common beliefs (the endoxa), the importance of Aristotle's practical philosophy and his concept of the relation between ethics and politics. The modern notion of technique, which seems to have grown in importance in the last century, seems incapable of handling basic and essential metaphysical issues, and this is why we still need metaphysics today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The commitment to reason is one of the characteristics of-Christianity as a religion. In this sense it is distinguishable from the atavism of other religions. Other things are understood such as the value of analogy in helping us to know God. However, the relationship between reason and Christian revelation entails purification on both sides. Many modern thinkers (Adorno, Horkheimer, Husserl, Heidegger) have shown that the modern notion of reason needs to be purified in the light of essential questions: the origin and destiny of man, our openness to transcendence, and so on. These issues have been the subject of recent discussion by Benedict XVI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the reception and influence that can be made by the book "Critique of Judgement," by Immanuel Kant. It focuses on the central distinction between the determinant and the reflective function, the two fundamental types of functions in the "Faculty of Judgement." Also, the book considers its projection to the experience being developed in the "Critique of Pure Reason."