The scarecrow of the values. Reflections on some misunderstandings

Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Roberta De Monticelli
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2011/42 Language Italian
Pages 18 P. 15-32 File size 118 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2011-042002
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Axiologic and moral scepticism has nourishedmainstream European practical philosophy during the XXth century, a time of bankruptcy of practical reason on the Continent. Yet the XXthcentury has also produced a kind of embodiment of practical reason, within the international organizations and institutions, as well as by means of the rigid postwar constitutions of the European States, the Declaration of the Human Rights in 1948 etc. How can practical philosophy grow up to the standards of embodied practical reason, instead of challenging it from a neosophistic point of view, through relativism, value polytheism and the like?

Roberta De Monticelli, Lo spauracchio dei valori. Riflessioni su alcuni fraintendimenti in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 42/2011, pp 15-32, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2011-042002