Corso di laurea magistrale in Filosofia

The next lecture of ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) Philosophical Seminar will be delivered by Prof. Federico Ferraguto on November 26th at 4 p.m.

Location: Università di Torino, Aula Guzzo, Po 18 - Torino

Federico Ferraguto

Analogies. Art, language and Philosophy in Fichte and Schelling

The paper develops elements of the controversy between Fichte and Schelling regarding aesthetics, philosophy of language and philosophy of religion starting from Schelling’s Inquiry on human freedom and Fichte’s late presentation of the Wissenschaftslehre (1810-1813). The polemics between Fichte and Schelling is not just a speculative one, but it involves different implications and consequences of their philosophical systems, that can be deepened through an analysis of the role of analogy by the two authors. The analogy is a figure that combines aesthetics, philosophy of language and philosophy of religion; it is a significant that puts the problem of meaning, i.e., puts the problem of the relationship between finite and infinite (Schelling) and the relationship between absolute and factual knowledge (Fichte). This relationship will be investigated starting from some passages of the Inquiry of human freedom (§ 2); then will be analysed the function of the concept of analogy and symbol in this context (§ 3) and, at least, a different understanding of the church as a symbol of the absolute in Schelling’s Philosophy of art and Fichtes’s Sistem of ethics of 1798 and 1812 (§ 4 ).

FEDERICO FERRAGUTO (Rome, 1979), professor in PUCPR (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Paranà, Curitiba, Brazil). Doctorate Rom “Tor Vergata”, Post-Doc: University of Rome “Sapienza”, Federal University of Paranà, Curitiba. Research fields: German Idealism, Fichte, Phenomenology. Books: Filosofare prima della filosofia, Hildesheim, Olms, 2010.

ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) is a periodic philosophical seminar organized by the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences of the University of Turin and the PhD Program FINO. It is coordinated by Prof. Alessandro Bertinetto.

ART addresses different topics of the contemporary debate in Aesthetics: philosophy of beauty, philosophy of the arts, theory of sensory experience, philosophy of image and imagination, and history of aesthetics.

ART is supported by:
Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulla Morfologia Francesco Moiso (CIM)
Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale di Logica, Linguaggio e Cognizione (LLC)
Centro Studi Arti della Modernità
Laboratorio di Ontologia (Labont)

ART is sponsored by: 
Italian Society for Aesthetics (SIE) 
European Society for Aesthetics (ESA)