Recent literature emphasizes an altered perception of the body in subjects practicing sport to pursue an ideal body image. Sometimes such bodily misperception is associated with the inability to re...

This study concentrates on two kinds of video games, Massive Online Battle Arena and Massive Multiplayer Online Role Play Game, and examines the scores obtained by the subjects in the sample. Score...

Outdoor education is a pedagogical orientation that has been present for years in the educational institutions of the municipality of Modena; the latter, through research, monitors the trend in order to identify and resolve problems. Examining the professionalism of the staff in the outdoor education field and the limitations in implementing the practice, this contribution highlights how various factors constitute an obstacle to carrying out the activities, even in the presence of adequate training; the constraints that emerged concern relationships with (...) colleagues and parents, bureaucracy and the physical structure of the service itself. The study therefore offers ideas to take into consideration for the updating and training of educational personnel on outdoor education practices. (shrink)

A presente reflexão pretende partir da afirmação da “morte de Deus”, que constitui em Nietzsche uma das suas concepções fundamentais e, poder-se-ia dizer, também, a chave de leitura do seu filosofar. Deste ponto de partida, o estudo procura extrair e identificar, sem para tal ser exaustivo, as emergências antropológicas e éticas do pensar nietzschiano. Palavras-chave: Übermensch. Dever ser. Vontade de potência. Riqueza antropológica. Ética.

En la reflexión filosófica contemporánea, la relación se ha convertido en una categoría interpretativa de la realidad humana y de sus articulaciones. Entre los filósofos que han estado interesados a la persona y sus relaciones intersubjetivas un lugar particular merece Maurice Nédoncelle, original personalista francés de ‘900, que ha reflexionado sobre la reciprocidad de las conciencias con el fin de captar la estructura relacional y intersubjetiva de lo humano. El presente estudio explica las coordenadas fundamentales del pensamiento de Nédoncelle, con (...) el fin de configurar una perspectiva ética que también es relacional. Palavras clave: Persona. Relación. Reciprocidad. Amor. Ética. Nédoncelle. (shrink)

This paper examines Aristotle’s treatment of friendship and self-love in Books VIII and IX of the Nicomachean Ethics. The purpose is to explore what Aristotle means by self, and his understanding of why selves become, engaged in benevolent relationships with others. Some discussion of Aristotle’s influence on Kierkegaard helps to bring out the significance of Aristotle’s insights about the self. Aristotle explains how the self’s movement toward actuality grounds friendship and benevolence. True friendship and all endeavors to “produce” good, derive (...) from love for one’s own being as mediated by one’s intelligence or nous. All such authentic endeavors constitute an effortto actualize one’s self, to act nobly, to be in one’s achievement and to panicipate in the community of being. (shrink)

In Book IX of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle discusses the motivating psychology of the benefactor. He finds that self-love is the crucial element of consciousness that accounts for the benefactor’s desire to participate constructively in the community of being. His analysis invites comparison with Aquinas’s treatment of the theological virtue of caritas. Similarities are found, but Aquinas’s approach leads to a discussion of divine beatitude where we find a somewhat surprising analogy between Aristotle’s human and Aquinas’s divine benefactor. For Aquinas (...) finds that divine beatitude is also a self-love flowing outward to the divine creative project. (shrink)

This article aims at providing a critical review of the main studies about Mafia in a theoretical psychological and socio-anthropological framework, and investigating the perception of the phenomenon in relation to moral disengagement and values orientation in two groups of Sicilian teenagers, living in contexts with different Mafia density. Today Mafia is represented as a socio-psychological phenomenon, which has managed to make culture, community, family, and individuals coincide; it is founded on an individualistic social conception according to which violence is (...) the strongest form of self-achievement. (shrink)