Music can reduce stress and anxiety, enhance positive mood, and facilitate social bonding. However, little is known about the role of music and related personal or cultural variables in maintaining wellbeing during times of stress and social isolation as imposed by the COVID-19 crisis. In an online questionnaire, administered in 11 countries, participants rated the relevance of wellbeing goals during the pandemic, and the effectiveness of different activities in obtaining these goals. Music was found to be the most effective activity (...) for three out of five wellbeing goals: enjoyment, venting negative emotions, and self-connection. For diversion, music was equally good as entertainment, while it was second best to create a sense of togetherness, after socialization. This result was evident across different countries and gender, with minor effects of age on specific goals, and a clear effect of the importance of music in people's lives. Cultural effects were generally small and surfaced mainly in the use of music to obtain a sense of togetherness. Interestingly, culture moderated the use of negatively valenced and nostalgic music for those higher in distress. (shrink)

The five-volume set Kant and Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense contains the proceedings of the Eleventh International Kant Congress, which took place in Pisa in 2010. The proceedings consist of 25 plenary talks and 341 papers selected by a team of international referees from over 700 submissions. The contributions span 14 sections: Kant’s Concept of Philosophy; Theory of Cognition and Logic; Ontology and Metaphysics; Ethics; Law and Justice; Religion and Theology; Aesthetics; Anthropology and Psychology; Politics and History; Science, Mathematics, and (...) the Philosophy of Nature; Kant and the Leibnizian Tradition; Kant and the Philosophical Tradition; Kant and Schopenhauer; and Kant’s Heritage. Thanks to cooperation from the Schopenhauer Gesellschaft, the 2010 conference was the first in the history of the International Kant Congress to include a session on Kant and Schopenhauer. -/- . (shrink)

The article addresses some aspects of Gava’s book, highlighting two main points: (1) the notion of philosophy in a cosmic sense; (2) its connection with the meaning of the concept of method. Regarding (1) I show how Gava’s interpretation of the systematic concept of philosophy does not account adequately for the scholastic concept. This has consequences for the notion of philosophy in a cosmic sense itself; its nature as an objective archetype and its personification in the ideal of a master (...) of wisdom are not properly emphasized. These features are closely related to Kant’s claim that philosophy cannot be learned, which is connected with Kant’s peculiar idea of method. Regarding (2), I argue that ‘method’ for Kant does not concern only the construction of scientific systems, but also the establishment of a way of thinking, a stance embracing thought and action. The meaning of the postulates and the notion of ‘faith’ thus acquire a ‘weaker’ connotation, as an attitude, habitus, aimed at the establishment and promotion of a ‘life-structuring’ rationality, and not as an alternative route to a theoretical ‘commitment’. (shrink)

Au xviie siècle, la dévotion à l’Enfant Jésus connaît un essor sans précédent. Cette spiritualité de l’Enfance s’articule autour des notions d’anéantissement, d’abnégation et d’abandon à Dieu, avec des âmes soumises dans des corps maîtrisés. Les chrétiens doivent s’identifier au Christ enfant, vivre dans la pauvreté, le dénuement et la dépendance qui était celle de l’enfant dans la crèche. Les femmes n’ont guère de mal à se reconnaître dans ce divin Enfant décrit comme « petit », faible et dépendant. Mais, (...) une fois « abandonnées à Dieu », elles donnent – littéralement – corps à l’Enfant Jésus et prennent la parole en son nom. Ainsi, loin du silence du nourrisson, les femmes utilisent cette forme de dévotion comme un moyen d’expression et de reconnaissance sociale. (shrink)

This article discusses the account of Kant's view of concept formation that Alberto Vanzo has put forward in "Kant e la formazione dei concetti" (Trento: Verifiche, 2012).

With the Science of Logic, Hegel poses a radical challenge to philosophy: a self-presentation of thought that, by not assuming anything outside itself, achieves its self-knowledge. From the possibility of such a project depends that of the autonomy of thought, that is, of a thought that gives itself its own law.Some classical readings consider this enterprise to be unsuccesful or not to be fully accomplished in the Logic. According to Dieter Henrich, Hegel's Logic would fall into a circle, because would (...) be burdened by the presupposition of the structure of thought itself, which should rather result from the logical process. For Robert B. Pippin or Terry Pinkard, instead, the instance of autonomy of thought would be realized not in the logic, but only at the level of the spirit.In contrast to such interpretations, we will try to show that precisely in the Logic the thought determines itself as autonomous. In its self-presentation thought, that has itself as its object, produces its own structures, which are not prior to the movement. And once it has come to know itself as such a process, thought ceases to presuppose itself as an object and poses its own form for itself. (shrink)

Although they were not written by Kant himself, the transcripts of his lectures constitute an important source for philosophical research today. The contributions presented in this volume discuss the authenticity and significance of these transcripts.Theyshed light ondifferent philosophical questions related to Kant s philosophy and provide new insights that, if looking at Kant s published writings alone, we would not be able to gain.".

Au xviie siècle, la dévotion à l’Enfant Jésus connaît un essor sans précédent. Cette spiritualité de l’Enfance s’articule autour des notions d’anéantissement, d’abnégation et d’abandon à Dieu, avec des âmes soumises dans des corps maîtrisés. Les chrétiens doivent s’identifier au Christ enfant, vivre dans la pauvreté, le dénuement et la dépendance qui était celle de l’enfant dans la crèche. Les femmes n’ont guère de mal à se reconnaître dans ce divin Enfant décrit comme « petit », faible et dépendant. Mais, (...) une fois « abandonnées à Dieu », elles donnent – littéralement – corps à l’Enfant Jésus et prennent la parole en son nom. Ainsi, loin du silence du nourrisson, les femmes utilisent cette forme de dévotion comme un moyen d’expression et de reconnaissance sociale. (shrink)

Se revisará e intentará fundamentar la tesis de Rorty según la cual no hay ni jerarquía ni diferencia radical entre las disciplinas o géneros discursivos, tanto en las así llamadas humanidades como en las ciencias positivas. Unas y otras componen un todo de continuidad. Todo ello es 'juego de lenguaje' o prácticas sociales variadas y diversamente relacionadas. Asimismo, se analizará el giro narrativo de la ética descrito por Rorty, entendido éste como la descripción ya no de formulaciones abstractas, sino de (...) experiencias humanas concretas, como el dolor o la traición, las que, al ser compartidas a través de géneros tales como la etnografía, el informe documental, el cine, el drama teatral y, especialmente, la novela, logran generar la necesaria empatia desde la cual se gesta la solidaridad y la compasión. Sólo la literatura es capaz de narrar, en ocasiones dramáticamente, el flujo de la vida, la ambigüedad propia de un "mundo interpretado", un mundo que muday acerca del cual realizamos múltiples descripciones redescripciones.Rorty's thesis will be revised, the same as its foundations will be laid in the presen! article. According to Rorty, there is neither a hierarchy ñor a radical difference between the disciplines or discursive genres contained in both, the so-called humanities, and in the positive sciences. Some sciences compose a "whole of continuity. " Consequently. (shrink)

Este trabajo se propone discutir el concepto kantiano de Ilustración en un triple aspecto: 1) la noción de saber implícita en el uso del lema sapere aude, referida no al conocimiento , sino a una noción de razón que culmina en la sabiduría (Weisheit.

Kant ha subrayado el carácter problemático del auto-conocimiento en el campo de la antropología y la psicología: desde sus primeras obras insistió en la imposibilidad de conocer con certeza, sobre la base de las acciones, la disposición moral subjetiva, la única que da a la acción un valor moral. Esta dificultad no se atenúa cuando el juicio moral es dirigido sobre el sujeto mismo. A los problemas cognitivos se añade una tendencia al auto-engaño que está activa en toda la vida (...) moral. Si se mantiene la importancia de este argumento, puede emerger una caracterización de la Gesinnung que la distingue de cualquier “intención” subjetiva. Aquella puede ser concebida más bien como una estructura “objetiva”, independiente de la conciencia subjetiva y análoga a una idea regulativa, que obliga a interpretar las acciones morales sobre la base de un principio que es necesario asumir, pero que no es posible conocer. (shrink)

Doctor in sociology and a researcher at CEAQ (Centre d’Etude sur l’Actuel et le Quotidien) of the Sorbonne University Paris Descartes, he is a lecturer at the Sorbonne, the founder and head of the GRIS (Groupe de Recherche sur l’Image en Sociologie).

Am 26. Dezember 2005, einen Tag vor seinem 74. Geburtstag, starb Silvestro Marcucci, Erster Vorsitzender der „Società Italiana di Studi Kantiani“, sowie Begründer und Herausgeber der Zeitschrift „Studi kantiani“. Sein Tod kam gänzlich unerwartet in einer Zeit, da er, seit dem 31. Oktober 2005 frei von akademischen Verpflichtungen, seine wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit fortsetzte, vielleicht mit noch größerer Freude und mehr Engagement als zuvor. Die letzten Wochen seines Lebens waren mit dem Gedanken an der Organisation des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses 2010 erfüllt, der (...) nach dem Beschluss der Kant-Gesellschaft im Oktober 2005 von der Società di studi kantiani in Pisa veranstaltet werden wird. Marcucci trug wie kaum ein anderer dazu bei, der italienischen Kant-Forschung, die ohnehin schon lange internationale Anerkennung gewonnen hat, ein prägnantes Profil zu verleihen: er hatte die Fähigkeit, die zahlreichen italienischen Forscher einem intensiveren wissenschaftlichen Austausch und dadurch zu neuen Leistungen zuzuführen. (shrink)