Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Sergio Fabio Berardini
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/2
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 35-50 File size 115 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2013-002004
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In this article the author considers Ernesto De Martino’s philosophical remarks on the Crocean dialectic and the categories of "economics" and "vitality". De Martino, who studied with the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce, tried to modify Croce’s philosophy referring on his own ethnological researches. In particular, De Martino attempted to distinguish economics from vitality (which were the same category in Croce’s opinion). According to De Martino’s idea, vitality was the biological life, which mankind must transform into culture to maintain itself as "human being". So the transition from nature to culture is the "ethos of humanity" and this transition is possible thanks to the category of economics (i.e., technique, science, economics, politics and furthermore religion, which De Martino called "technique of sacred"). Under this point of view (which presents many differences from Croce’s view) economics is the category which inaugurates the beginning of human history.
Keywords: Benedetto Croce, economics, Ernesto De Martino, ethos of transcendence, religion, vitality.
Sergio Fabio Berardini, Sulla vitalità e l’utile. Ernesto De Martino e la riforma della dialettica crociana in "PARADIGMI" 2/2013, pp 35-50, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2013-002004