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Chapter Il degrado della biosfera
(2020)
The position of man in the biosphere and the interaction of its activities with the different sectors of the earth's ecosphere are bringing the Earth system into a drastically different state from that in which the development ...
Chapter Limiti alla crescita, universalismo e progresso sociale
(2020)
The paradigm of limits to growth has been legitimized by important contributions, both scientific and philosophical. Although it has oriented the political program of the major ecological movements, its weakness is to be ...
Chapter Per una teoria del declino delle società complesse
(2020)
To explain social decline, a first mechanism notes that elites, understood as small and relatively homogeneous groups, have a superiority to act in concert, compared to the masses. When the capitalist dynamics offers great ...
Chapter Kant e il carattere dei popoli
(2020)
Kant deals with national characters in the second part of his Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view of 1798. Firmly rejecting the climatic theory, he advocates an anti-naturalistic stance. However, Kant is skeptical ...
Chapter Milieu et peuples. Entre les traités hippocratiques et Aristote
(2020)
The article compares some of the so-called Hippocratic treatises and Aristotle’s Physics, Meteorologics, Ethics and Politics, on what would define a human community, if not a nation. It shows a common absence of the notions ...