Among the countless foundational questions regarding the Metaverse, one stands out: Can an avatar be endowed with legal subjectivity? This research aims to answer this question by applying the theoretical paradigm of the philosopher John R. Searle “X counts as Y in C.” In other words, is it possible for…
The paper draws inspiration from an insight by Simone Weil, based on a reflection on the crusade against the Cathars between the 11th and 13th centuries. According to the philosopher, this historical event constitutes a little-studied but decisive watershed between opposing conceptions of man, society, and law, which resolve themselves…
This paper aims to explore civil disobedience within the framework of the Algorithmic Society, beginning with the paradigmatic figure of Antigone as a symbolic reference for conscientious opposition to established authority. After reconstructing the main theoretical and conceptual foundations of civil disobedience, the analysis focuses on its evolution from “electronic”…
The article offers a critical analysis of Timothy Morton’s “post-environmentalist” theories through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology to explore their potential contribution to a philosophy of disability law. The first part investigates the concept of ‘vulnerability’ and how its traditional doctrinal understanding can be deepened through Morton’s speculative thought….
This paper investigates the concept of sustainability through the metaphor of the threshold, reframing the temporal relationship between present and future. Moving beyond the dominant logic in which present determines future possibilities, the analysis proposes a reversal: the future, in its indeterminacy, shapes the present. By engaging with key philosophical…
The present contribution is part of a broader investigation that involves the jurist in a dynamic and constantly evolving training process. The aim is to focus attention on an increasingly ‘diastemic’ legal science (using François Jullien’s lexicon) characterised by continuous transformations that make it ‘escape’ from a purely ‘systemic’ logic…
Identity, responsibility and citizenship are seriously challenged by datafication, that is, the process by which subjects, objects, and practices are transformed into digital data. This leads to a progressive de-humanization of these dimensions, as their meaning is made in reference to an abstract and disembodied data subject. Connecting their meaning…
The paper aims to examine some aspects of the legal philosophical theory of Marsilius of Padua contained in his main work, the Defensor Pacis, which have received less attention than the historical and political profiles, and the more classical themes of popular sovereignty and secularism. More specifically, it examines some passages of…
Taking as starting point the Multimedia Handbook of Philosophy of Law by Thomas Casadei and Gianfrancesco Zanetti, the author of the contribution analyses its methodological structure highlighting not only the characteristics that determine its completeness and originality in the legal-philosophical panorama, but also some conceptual nodes of the contemporary debate on law, rights and…
Is there a link between the Sabbath, inaction, and translation? And, again, between the Sabbath and the rhythm of relations with Otherness? This short essay seeks to probe, from a semi-anthropological perspective, the ternary relationship between three cultural categories/archetypes: the ‘Sabbath,’ ‘Babel,’ and ‘Otherness,’ respectively. ‘Translation’ is treated as the…
