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Introduzione alla metafisica
La nuova edizione dell'"Introduzione alla metafisica" di Enrico Berti ripropone la concezione originale della metafisica che l'autore va presentando da anni, la quale ha suscitato l'interesse degli studiosi di filosofia, come dimostrano le traduzioni dell'opera in altre lingue. Essa contiene alcune correzioni rispetto all'edizione precedente, dovute a ulteriori studi, e soprattutto è corredata da cinque appendici, costituite da altrettanti articoli sul tema, pubblicati dall'autore negli anni più recenti. L'opera comprende una parte storica, che illustra le diverse forme di metafisica elaborate nella filosofia occidentale, e una parte teoretica, che difende le ragioni di un certo tipo di metafisica, caratterizzata come «metafisica dell'esperienza», sviluppando gli spunti forniti in questa direzione dalla «scuola padovana» facente capo a Marino Gentile. Nel complesso si tratta di una delle rare proposte italiane di una filosofia autenticamente metafisica, in linea con la grande tradizione della «metafisica classica» di ispirazione aristotelica, ma al tempo stesso essenzializzata e aggiornata in modo da tenere conto delle critiche e delle esigenze del pensiero contemporaneo. Il rifiorire di interesse per la metafisica, manifestatosi soprattutto nell'ambito della filosofia analitica, conferma l'attualità dell'opera.
200 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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September 1, 2025
A condensed account of old Berti’s recollection of his two main achievements: Aristotelian metaphysics and the dialectics in ancient and modern times.
1. He starts with an old Aristotelian question: Metaphysics is the science of being as being. But what is its subject? Is it being in general, the most universal, or the eminent being, the most particular l? Berti’s answer: you must distinguish subject from object.
2. The answer: the subject is the Principle, the cause primo.
Why have a science devoted to this subject? Because people live, and life itself is problematic. The only thing not problematic is the problem itself: whenever you ask why you must ask, you are already asking. Thinking is the highest form of life.
People cannot escape experience. Denying experience is itself an experience. So Berti accepts that everything is experiential. Yet the aim of metaphysics is precisely not to treat experience as absolute, for the Principle is always not yet experienced.
Metaphysics is not just ontology, nor is it onto-theology. It should be neither purely immanent nor transcendent. It takes a middle path: it accepts that nothing in reality is beyond experience, yet firmly resists treating experience as absolute.
He extends dialectics, generalizes experience into life, and turns the law of non-contradiction from a mere logical principle into a principle of life. It brings to mind the work of François Wolff.
The first chapter, a historical survey of the concept of metaphysics, is full of gems. The second chapter offers a very elegant taxonomic framework, based on the standard of immanence versus transcendence.
He writes almost up to German idealism, with some occasional small digressions about analytical philosophy. Claims like using conservation of mass to show the insistence of substance should be taken as the old master’s personal flourish.
1. He starts with an old Aristotelian question: Metaphysics is the science of being as being. But what is its subject? Is it being in general, the most universal, or the eminent being, the most particular l? Berti’s answer: you must distinguish subject from object.
2. The answer: the subject is the Principle, the cause primo.
Why have a science devoted to this subject? Because people live, and life itself is problematic. The only thing not problematic is the problem itself: whenever you ask why you must ask, you are already asking. Thinking is the highest form of life.
People cannot escape experience. Denying experience is itself an experience. So Berti accepts that everything is experiential. Yet the aim of metaphysics is precisely not to treat experience as absolute, for the Principle is always not yet experienced.
Metaphysics is not just ontology, nor is it onto-theology. It should be neither purely immanent nor transcendent. It takes a middle path: it accepts that nothing in reality is beyond experience, yet firmly resists treating experience as absolute.
He extends dialectics, generalizes experience into life, and turns the law of non-contradiction from a mere logical principle into a principle of life. It brings to mind the work of François Wolff.
The first chapter, a historical survey of the concept of metaphysics, is full of gems. The second chapter offers a very elegant taxonomic framework, based on the standard of immanence versus transcendence.
He writes almost up to German idealism, with some occasional small digressions about analytical philosophy. Claims like using conservation of mass to show the insistence of substance should be taken as the old master’s personal flourish.
January 12, 2025
le doy 3,5 en realidad, si quieres meterte en el tema de la metafísica es un buen comienzo
January 25, 2025
3.5 ⭐️
Niente di retoricamente troppo entusiasmante, ma di contenuto molto chiaro
Niente di retoricamente troppo entusiasmante, ma di contenuto molto chiaro
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