Abstracts
Bene Essere
Rita Argentiero
Lo ψυχρότροφον nel De materia medica di Dioscoride Pedanio: una pianta per curare il corpo e l’anima
Abstract The article delves into the study of psychrotrophon’s beneficial properties, as originally described by Dioscorides Pedanius in De materia medica and later interpreted as beneficial for both body and soul. Fragments of texts by other authors who commented on, quoted or translated Dioscorides’ text are also considered in the course of this investigation.
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Gabriella Armenise
Educare al ben-essere
Abstract The body in the acceptation of both Körper and Leib is the focus of the educational relationship. The narration of the same explains how the subject experiences. Experience that is always of the world and in the world, therefore together with other subjects, has as its aim existential well-being. Children’s literature, such as Rodari’s, among others, helps to meet this aim.
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Antonio Bergamo
Prossimità, desiderio e salvezza
Abstract This contribution aims to illustrate the contribution of Christian experience and understanding to the question of the relationship between well-being and salvation. Using a theological epistemological approach, an attempt will be made to outline an anthropological and thus ontological horizon of meaning, making the human sciences, philosophy and theology interact.
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Elena Conca Il ben-essere nella Regula Benedicti e nella tradizione benedettina. Per una visione di sintesi Abstract The contribution considers the foundations of wellbeing, even the physical one, contained in the Regula Benedicti. It’s impossible to detache them from the transcendentals of being and they are sublimated into a specifically monastic vision of faith. The Regula and the thought and actions of many Benedictine monks and nuns, in the past and today, show the validity of the Benedictine message, also about health, in the different historical-cultural contexts. ____________ Luca Cucurachi Il benessere psicologico: per una cura integrale della persona Abstract Psychological well-being includes several dimensions of human being: individual, social, cultural and spiritual. Based on a multidisciplinary approach, it implies the goals of a positive mental health, feeling good in the world and with the others, improving the individual and collective abilities and therefore actively contributing to common good of humanity. Through agency and empathy, it involves deep and better processes of self-knowledge, feeling experiences and constructive relationships, in order to deal with personal and common difficulties and to help everyone realize their potential together with others. ____________ Daniela De Leo Benesser-ci Abstract The aim of the study is to interrogate Being in its specificities of ‘I am’, ‘I can’ and ‘I donate’ in order to find the texture of well-being, as the equilibrium of physical, psycho-spiritual and intersubjective existence patterns. ____________ Riccardo Pozzo, Vania Virgili Food and the Reflective Society. Reflections on Biocultural Diversity Abstract The relationship between food and culture has been considered from a range of disciplines and approaches including anthropology, sociology, history, economics, philosophy, and women’s studies. The UNESCO list of world intangible cultural heritage embraces to date 547 items. Food has much to offer to the “reflective society”, a syntagma that has been receiving increased usage among researchers since 2013, because it was the title chosen by the European Commission for posting Social Sciences and Humanities related calls within the sixth societal challenge of Horizon 2020, which is about “Innovative, inclusive and reflective societies”. Biodiversity is to be studied in relation to the mobility of migrants, which has an impact on the agri-food systems. It is necessary to combine global climate change models with local scenarios of social and economic growth. We expect food to trigger a change in the mind-set as regards locating culture (anthropology of space and place) for inclusion and reflection in education, life-long learning, healthcare, urban development and regeneration. Culture cannot be but plural, changing, adaptable, constructed. Inclusion and reflection are constructed whenever we are in contact with other human beings, regardless where they come from. This we have to learn. ____________ Giorgio Rizzo I movimenti della vita nel pensiero di Jan Patoĉka Abstract Starting from the notion of “movement”, meant as “rooting”, “self-sustainment” and “existence”, the Czech philosopher Jan Patoĉka, aims at a resemantization of human life intended as an existential search for that openess which allows the anima of the subject to cope with the finitude of life. ____________ Luana Rizzo «Mens sana in corpore sano». Medicina e Filosofia nel Rinascimento: il Liber de vita di Marsilio Ficino Abstract The paper investigates the concept of health and well-being in Marsilio Ficino’s thought, with reference to the medical-philosophical and astrological meanings present in De vita. The philosopher delineates the idea of a close correlation between good health of body and soul and the achievement of human happiness and well-being. ____________ Fabio A. Sulpizio L’anima che alberga la filosofia deve, con la sua sanità, render sano anche il corpo Abstract The essay sets out to examine the relationship between the health of the body and the health of the soul in a few pages of Montaigne’s Essais, insisting on the parallelism between care of the body and care of the soul as, however, the expression of a complex relationship with the world of law. According to Montaigne’s Platonic vision, rhetoric and sophistry are characterised as degenerations of a righteous conduct of life, both individual and collective, which can be opposed to an autonomy of judgement based on an awareness of the mutation of being. ____________ Francesco Totaro Etica della cura e ben-essere della persona Abstract Caring aims at the full being of persons and requalification of their abilities when they are lacking. Fragility and vulnerability, even when they seem insuperable, do not cease to orient themselves to a condition of positive being. Care’s organization needs to realize a dialogical communication, in the mutual recognition of the dignity of both, doctor and patient. Sharing diagnostic itinerary and therapeutic action is possible, thanks to interweaving of interpersonal skills. In a frame like that, a correct and intelligent use of technologies is important. Le radici filosofiche Rita Argentiero L’admiratio di fronte a un’eclissi secondo Marco Antonio Zimara Abstract The article aims to examine a specific problem posed by Marco Antonio Zimara in the Problemata, in which the philosopher asks why the solar and lunar eclipses, unlike the birth of plants and animals, are objects of admiratio. This investigation delves into not only the content of the issue but also its philological aspects and cultural impact. ____________ Ennio De Bellis Aristosseno: breve profilo e bibliografia del φιλόσοφος e μουσικῇ ἐπιθέμενος tarantino Abstract The aim of this article is to provide a brief profile of the figure of Aristoxenus, focusing on both the biographical elements and the literary production that has survived. Particular attention is paid to the bibliography, which has been compiled with the intention of presenting a general overview that shows how multifaceted the studies on Aristoxenus are, involving experts from different parts of the world. ____________ Mino Ianne I sapienti italici di area ionico-salentina nella costruzione del pensiero filosofico tra V e IV sec. a.C. (I parte) Abstract The Ionian area of Western Greece played a decisive and high-profile role in the construction of the scientific mind and hellenic ethical mind. Ithalic Greece can be considered the place of origin of philosophical knowledge; representatives of this land remained famous throughout antiquity and the echoes of their thought and works have come to us, helping us to understand the intellectual reach of these men of science, who deliver, to us contemporaries, the task of keeping alive the value of an intellectually and historically complex but fascinatingly charged tradition. ____________ Mino Ianne Archita, Aristosseno e il sapere filosofico di area ionico-salentina nel IV sec. a.C. (II parte) Abstract Archytas of Tarentum appears particularly significant, in the historical-philosophical context of the fourth century b. C. Its fame and importance in the ancient world is also demonstrated by the variegated corpus of Doric pseudopythagoric writings, among which the name of Archytas stands out. Archytas is described as a “Pythagorean” for the first time in Diogenes Laertius (VIII 79), who on this point relies on the testimony of Aristoxenus. The Aristoxenus’ interest in Pythagoreanism was closely linked with the Pythagoreans of Architas’ circle through his father Spintarus. His approach of the Pytagoreanism is often regarded as rationalistic construction, which it to a great extent was. La tradizione religiosa Antonio Bergamo Dire noi. Note per una cultura di prossimità Abstract A community that experiences a bond of mutual solidarity through the personal relationship that binds an individual to another individual and through the vision of an overall horizon that embraces and expresses itself through common feeling. ____________ Ginetta De Trane Gemellaggio Galatina-Assisi. Storia, cultura e bellezza di due Basiliche attraverso l’amicizia di due comunità Abstract Galatina and Assisi shake hands in the sign of friendship to build a virtual cathedral togheter through a common path of sharing spiritual values, the valorisation of cultural and historical heritage and tourism development with an eye towards the future, valorizing ancient cultures and traditions. ____________ Antonio Lombardo Un protocollo di intesa tra istituzioni pubbliche: una riflessione sulle competenze nel settore culturale Abstract A memorandum of understanding between public institutions that offers the community a series of operations for the strengthening of research, the transmission of knowledge, the promotion of cultural and identity values, through the method of relationship and reciprocity. ____________ Paolo Agostino Vetrugno L’impaginazione rinascimentale del pantheon orsiniano di Galatina: aspetti iconografici Abstract The renaissance artistic testimonies of the Basilica of S. Caterina d’Alessandria in Galatina (Lecce), almost as in a peregrinatio animae (pilgrimage of souls) from the beginning to the end of human existence, document the cultic and cultural continuity of the Orsinian pantheon following the Franciscan tradition. Testimonianze Domenico M. Fazio In memoria di Sossio Giametta Abstract Sossio Giametta (1929-2024) is the most important italian translator of Nietzsche’s and Schopenhauer’s works. This article aims to enlighten his activity as translator and as writer of philosophical essays and narrations, his teaching at University of Salento and his engagement as journalist. Giametta’s philosophical perspective is the “Essentialism”: all living beings share the same essence, which is the basis of the solidarity of the species and, in the case of human beings, the expression of this solidarity is compassion. ____________ Mario Carparelli Bibliografia di Sossio Giametta Abstract Sossio Giametta (Frattamaggiore, 1929 – Brussels, 2024) was the leading Italian translator of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, to whom he also devoted numerous studies. He was also the author of novels and short stories. He collaborated with numerous newspapers, including Il Mattino, Montanelli’s Il Giornale, L’Unità, Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica and Il Sole 24 Ore. As a philosopher he proposed his own system called Essentialism. His complete bibliography is collected in this contribution.