Governing the passions
Sketches on Lodovico Antonio Muratori's moral philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11348684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chiara Continisio (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 367-384 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2006.08.002 |
| OpenAlex | W2087124331 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Muratori has often been portrayed as a moral philosopher who represented the traditional neo-Aristotelian mainstream of Italian intellectual life in the early part of the eighteenth century. His loyalty to Christianity as a basis from which societies ought to be reformed has determined his reputation as a ‘pre-enlightened’ thinker. Yet, it is argued here that not only was Muratori very much in touch with the state of the art of early eighteenth-century moral philosophy, but also that he was really a historian with political interests who came to develop a renewed Christian moral philosophy as a tool to respond to the political challenges of the time. Fallen man's preference for self-preservation to natural freedom prepared him for engaging in increasingly sociable contexts that required further self-disciplining and moral improvement. Thus, man cultivated his fallen condition into prudence and ultimately developed a capacity both for charity and for functioning in modern commercial societies
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Mainstream · Moral philosophy · Natural law · Passions · Political science · Politics · Prudence · Reputation · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Theology · Virtue · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |