On the fatigue of growing up: Social body and personal identity

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7 Roberta De Monticelli

On the fatigue of growing up: Social body and personal identity

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Saturday 28 May 2011 11:30 am
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What is the meaning and what is the origin of the metaphorical expression ‘the social body?’ A personal mind is endowed with senses and intelligence, but also participates in ‘common sense.’ Let us than ask ourselves what common sense is, and what its relationship to the social body is. What is a community, and what connects the community and the individuals that make it up? In answering that question we should bear in mind that the community precedes the individual and is its cradle, its ground of growth and nourishment, its ‘root.’ Thus subordinating the standpoint of the community to that of the free and responsible individual is a recent choice—and apparently, not at all an irreversible one—in human history. In our democracies, where ‘one head, one vote,’ this reversal should take place in the conscience of ever new individuals if our democracies are to stand or even progress. But this requires more and more people—all people if possible—achieving moral autonomy. 


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Roberta De Monticelli has studied in Pisa, Bonn, Zurich and in Oxford, where she worked with Michael Dummett, the noted philosopher of language. She has taught Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Geneva, and currently teaches Philosophy of the Human Person at the San Raffaele University, Milan. She has produced annotated translations of St Augustine’s Confessions (Garzanti 1990), and of Wittgenstein’s Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology (Adelphi 1990). Her other books include: L'ascesi filosofica (Feltrinelli1995); La conoscenza personale (Guerini 1998); L’ordine del cuore (Garzanti 2003); L’allegria della mente (B. Mondadori 2004); Nulla appare invano (Baldini Castoldi Dalai 2006); Esercizi di pensiero per apprendisti filosofi (Bollati Boringhieri 2006); Sullo spirito e l’ideologia (Baldini Castoldi Dalai 2007); Ontologia del nuovo (with C. Conni, Bruno Mondadori 2008); La novità di ognuno. Persona e libertà (Garzanti 2009); La questione morale (Raffaello Cortina 2010).

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