Starting from the ideal-typical categories coined by Weber, this paper aims to analyse the concept of charisma and its function of unifying force in the formation of social groups. In the oldest societies, it has played an important and... more
Starting from the ideal-typical categories coined by Weber, this paper aims to analyse the concept of charisma and its function of unifying force in the formation of social groups. In the oldest societies, it has played an important and essential role, but with the birth of the modern State and the its bureaucratic-legal-rational form, this form of power has declined. Only in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, just when the first crisis of the liberal State, charisma presents itself as the true strength of the union group consensus. Globalization heightens the sense of maladjustment of the modern individual. He’s devoid of any social bond, but the charisma of populist leaders or neo - fundamentalists trying to redesign a fictitious community of belonging to each individual, to give meaning to their lives. The applied methodology makes use of a political-philosophical approach, based on the hypothetical-deductive method through bibliographical research. The aim of the a...
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This article deals with the question of “what is the relationship and the difference between philosophy and theology”. Answering this question is important in order to delineate the object of these disciplines’ inquiry as defined by... more
This article deals with the question of “what is the relationship and the difference between philosophy and theology”. Answering this question is important in order to delineate the object of these disciplines’ inquiry as defined by concepts of being and God. First, certain aspects of the formation of Science are presented as constituted by the concept of theoria. This concept signifies the highest type of life and human knowledge characterized by philosophy of which the ultimate aim is wisdom. Within philosophy, two concepts of being have characterized different approaches to the issue of a more realistic knowledge about reality, where, by analyzing the character of being and its last causes, it is possible to arrive at the Absolute being. In Aristotle’s view, a form of being defines what it is to be a being, while in Thomas’ view to be a being means being something existing. This change towards a more realistic view of being went hand in hand with a change in comprehension of the ...
The question of when to posit ways of being is closely related to a more general question: when should one think that some philosophically interesting expression is analogous? Accordingly, my strategy here is as follows. First, I briefly... more
The question of when to posit ways of being is closely related to a more general question: when should one think that some philosophically interesting expression is analogous? Accordingly, my strategy here is as follows. First, I briefly explain my interpretation of ...