Il contributo di Ada Lamacchia alla interpretazione dell’etica di Francis Wayland

Name: Il contributo di Ada Lamacchia alla interpretazione dell’etica di Francis Wayland
Brand: Vita e Pensiero
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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA

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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA - 2017 - 1

Titolo

Il contributo di Ada Lamacchia alla interpretazione dell’etica di Francis Wayland

Autore

Elisa Maria Buzzi

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Vita e Pensiero

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03-2017

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0035-6247 (stampa) | 1827-7926 (digitale)

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Ada Lamacchia’s scholarship firstly introduced into Italy the works of Francis Wayland, one of the leading moral philosophers of American nineteenth-century Academic Orthodoxy. After drawing an outline of Wayland’s philosophical and religious context, this article analyses Lamacchia’s reading of Wayland’s ethics ‘in the sign of critical reason.’ Focusing on Wayland’s anti-utilitarian stance, his social ethics, and the interactions between philosophical thought and Reformed theology in antebellum America, Lamacchia stresses both the affinities between Wayland’s Moral Science and Kant’s ethics in their speculative sources and motives, and the differences that peculiar cultural circumstances imparted to their thought. In this way Lamacchia’s interpretation also offers a very interesting perspective on the debate on modernity in nineteenth-century America.