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L’uomo, la sua mortalità e immortalità
Il volume comprende un ampio saggio introduttivo e la traduzione italiana del trattato Sull’uomo, sulla sua mortalità o immortalità di Aleksandr Nikolaevič Radiščev, scritto in Siberia tra il 1792 e il 1796, pubblicato diversi anni dopo la morte dell’autore. Il trattato inizia con l’esplorazione dei percorsi e dei risultati delle diverse scienze che offrono una conoscenza dei vari aspetti del mondo umano, ma non penetrano la sua essenza. A fondamento del molteplice e del mutevole resta, sconosciuta e indefinibile, la sostanza unica. Dietro il Leibniz dell’epigrafe, dietro Herder e Mendelssohn, si affaccia, non detto, il pericoloso, e forse più amato, Spinoza. Radiščev è una figura emblematica del Settecento Russo, considerato il teorico dell’uguaglianza, e da alcuni critici, a torto, un precursore della rivoluzione russa. Il pensiero di Radiščev a questo proposito è chiaro e matura attraverso le letture del Beccaria, del Filangieri e del Dragonetti: l’uguaglianza di natura (giusnaturalismo) è utopica se non diventa uguaglianza di fronte alla legge.
The volume includes an extensive introductory essay and an Italian translation of the treatise On Man, His Mortality or Immortality by Aleksandr Nikolaevič Radiščev, written in Siberia between 1792 and 1796, published several years after the author’s death. The treatise begins with an exploration of the paths and achievements of the different sciences that offer knowledge of the various aspects of the human world, but do not penetrate its essence. At the foundation of the manifold and the changeable, there remains, unknown and indefinable, the unitary substance. Behind the Leibniz of the epigraph, behind Herder and Mendelssohn, there appears, unspoken, the dangerous, and perhaps most beloved, Spinoza. Radiščev is an emblematic figure of 18th-century Russia, considered the theorist of equality and by some critics, wrongly, a precursor of the Russian Revolution. Radiščev’s thought in this regard is clear and matures through the readings of Beccaria, Filangieri and Dragonetti: equality of nature (natural law) is utopian if it does not become equality before the law.
The volume includes an extensive introductory essay and an Italian translation of the treatise On Man, His Mortality or Immortality by Aleksandr Nikolaevič Radiščev, written in Siberia between 1792 and 1796, published several years after the author’s death. The treatise begins with an exploration of the paths and achievements of the different sciences that offer knowledge of the various aspects of the human world, but do not penetrate its essence. At the foundation of the manifold and the changeable, there remains, unknown and indefinable, the unitary substance. Behind the Leibniz of the epigraph, behind Herder and Mendelssohn, there appears, unspoken, the dangerous, and perhaps most beloved, Spinoza. Radiščev is an emblematic figure of 18th-century Russia, considered the theorist of equality and by some critics, wrongly, a precursor of the Russian Revolution. Radiščev’s thought in this regard is clear and matures through the readings of Beccaria, Filangieri and Dragonetti: equality of nature (natural law) is utopian if it does not become equality before the law.