The article responds to the comments on my book, La vita umana in prima persona (Human Life in the First Person, Laterza, 2012). They tackle my proposal to redescribe bioethical debates through the idea that in procreation, sexuality and dying new fields of experience are being opened and are in need of human resources, in order for individuals to make something of themselves in such circumstances. I go back to a conception of moral thought offered in the book, which I work out by learning from Wittgenstein how to elucidate the life with the concepts related to human life, and by exploring, with the help of both Mill and the later Foucault, the idea that an active exercise of one’s freedom is seen in the capacity to give form to one’s life, made possible by a society hospitable to such work of invention of individualities and styles of existence.
The article responds to the comments on my book, La vita umana in prima persona (Human Life in the First Person, Laterza, 2012). They tackle my proposal to redescribe bioethical debates through the idea that in procreation, sexuality and dying new fields of experience are being opened and are in need of human resources, in order for individuals to make something of themselves in such circumstances. I go back to a conception of moral thought offered in the book, which I work out by learning from Wittgenstein how to elucidate the life with the concepts related to human life, and by exploring, with the help of both Mill and the later Foucault, the idea that an active exercise of one’s freedom is seen in the capacity to give form to one’s life, made possible by a society hospitable to such work of invention of individualities and styles of existence.
La vita umana e l’invenzione di sé / Donatelli, Piergiorgio. - In: NOTIZIE DI POLITEIA. - ISSN 1128-2401. - STAMPA. - 29:110(2013), pp. 117-123.
La vita umana e l’invenzione di sé
DONATELLI, Piergiorgio
2013
Abstract
The article responds to the comments on my book, La vita umana in prima persona (Human Life in the First Person, Laterza, 2012). They tackle my proposal to redescribe bioethical debates through the idea that in procreation, sexuality and dying new fields of experience are being opened and are in need of human resources, in order for individuals to make something of themselves in such circumstances. I go back to a conception of moral thought offered in the book, which I work out by learning from Wittgenstein how to elucidate the life with the concepts related to human life, and by exploring, with the help of both Mill and the later Foucault, the idea that an active exercise of one’s freedom is seen in the capacity to give form to one’s life, made possible by a society hospitable to such work of invention of individualities and styles of existence.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
