Salvatore Tedesco

Erweiterung des Kantismus, Umgestaltung der Metaphysik. Il giovane Viktor von Weizsäcker lettore di Kant

This paper aims to examine the relationships between the research of young Viktor von Weizsacker and Kant’s critical thinking. Starting from the criticism of Driesch’s Neovitalism, here are considered some of the major contributions of Weizsacker in the years 1911-1926, in order to show its path between criticism of knowledge, metaphysics, construction of a biology and a medical anthropology.

TIPO, FORMA, MEMORIA. BUFFON E IL PROBLEMA DELLA DÉGÉNÉRATION

The concept of degeneration in Buffon plays a key role in allowing to articulate a reflection on the relationship between species and individual, in theorizing the unit of the type as hierarchical concept of higher order capable of giving an account of the reality of life in its diversification, and especially in allowing the arising of a consideration of the relationship between matter and living form that will profoundly affect the origins of modern biology as Goethe’s morphological thinking.

Schopenhauer, l'antropologia e la questione morfologica

This paper aims at examining the relationship between the form and the problem of the will in Schopenhauers thought. The reference to Gehlens anthropology and to contemporary biological debate serve to contrast the solution of Schopenhauer and the morphological perspective.