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Un’educazione autentica non può più ignorare la condizione dell’essere umano, sopraffatto da una tradizione culturale e religiosa che cerca di distoglierlo dalla crisi esistenziale fin quasi a neutralizzarla. Come nel mito platonico della caverna, l’uomo è chiamato a uscire dalle tenebre, a “stare nella crisi”, a viverla fino in fondo per oltrepassare se stesso. Tracce di questa condizione ulteriore emergono nel pensiero di Friedrich Nietzsche e Martin Heidegger. Approfondendo alcune coppie concettuali – quali verità-mondo, essere-volere, nichilismo-ultimo uomo, disciplina-allevamento, storia-mito – il volume si propone di smentire i luoghi comuni sui due filosofi e di mostrare in che modo essi siano educatori. Educare alla crisi significa superare le verità imposte dalla dimensione pubblica, che spesso annulla ogni processo di vera crescita. Il percorso di liberazione qui tracciato sotto la guida di Nietzsche e Heidegger rappresenta per l’uomo un tentativo di realizzare se stesso, di avverare il proprio progetto su di sé e sul mondo.

Among the Early Medieval double-edged swords, excavated in the Carpathian Basin, there are a few which probably have Byzantine origin. The most unique piece of this small but significant group of weapons was unearthed at Kunágota, Southern Hungary. The sword, which has a special sword-guard made of bronze, has been examined by the experts of the Archaeometallurgical Research Group of the University of Miskolc with optical microscopy, SEM-EDS, ED-XRF, and microhardness tests. The primary aim was to study the microstructure of the blade and guard. There was also an important objective of the investigations to explore the possible manufacturing technology. Due to the metallographic examination, it was possible to reconstruct the manufacturing process of the Kunágota-sword. Three samples were taken from the sword for metallographic examination, two of them (K1A and K1B) were collected from the sword-guard and one (K2) from the blade. To summarise the results, it can be established that ...

The potential GDP plays a fundamental role in macroeconomic models used by policymakers to make decisions. Its nature as an unobservable variable has led to the proposition of various estimation techniques based on different assumptions about its generating process. This work proposes a methodology to evaluate the different techniques for estimating potential GDP: the Variation Index of Output Gap (V IOG). Inspired by the statistic mean absolute deviation and the work of Darvas, Vadas, et al. (2003), the V IOG measures the average absolute gap derived from a potential GDP estimation technique. Unlike other methodologies that assess the statistical performance of estimation techniques, the V IOG aims to provide a practical response to the subjective dilemma of potential GDP estimation depending on what policymakers seek: more aggressive economic policies, where a greater output gap is permitted, or more conservative ones, which show a smaller output gap. To illustrate this, an application using the Taylor rule is presented. The results suggest that the differences between using different methodologies to estimate potential GDP can be significant, especially in times of crisis, affecting policymakers’ decisionmaking, implying that depending on the technique used, more or less restrictive economic policy decisions may be taken.