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    Vol. 3 (2022)

    Conflict is a structural dimension of human experience, permeating individual and collective life, political institutions, legal frameworks, social dynamics, and technological transformations. Far from being reducible to a mere pathology of social coexistence, conflict often functions as a generative force: a site of crisis, but also of reconfiguration of values, norms, and practices.

    This volume of Etica-mente. L’annuario brings together philosophical contributions addressing conflict from ethical, political, legal, and social perspectives. The essays examine the conditions of possibility, historical forms, and normative implications of conflict, exploring it as a tension between individuals and communities, power and justice, order and dissent, technology and life.

    The issue aims to provide conceptual tools for understanding conflict not only as an exceptional event, but as a constitutive feature of contemporary societies, calling ethical reflection to engage with contexts marked by pluralism, vulnerability, and persistent conflict.

  • Vol. 4 (2023)

    Corporeality is a fundamental dimension of human experience, a site of exposure, vulnerability, and relation. The body is not merely a biological datum, but a nexus of meaning in which identity, social practices, ethical norms, power relations, and technological transformations intersect.

    The fourth volume of Etica-mente. L’annuario is devoted to a philosophical investigation of corporeality from ethical, political, and social perspectives. The collected contributions examine the body as lived experience, as a terrain of symbolic and normative conflict, as an object of legal regulation, and as a key locus of the challenges posed by contemporary technology and medicine.

    Through different theoretical approaches, the issue addresses themes such as bodily vulnerability, care, embodiment, the normativity of bodies, and practices of control and emancipation, highlighting corporeality as a crucial lens for understanding contemporary transformations of the human condition.

    The volume aims to contribute to a critical reflection on corporeality, emphasizing its central role in the redefinition of subjectivity, responsibility, and shared life.

  • Vol. 5 (2024)

    The concept of limit is a fundamental category of philosophical thought, functioning both as a condition and as a problem of human action. Limits delineate, orient, and make experience possible, while at the same time representing thresholds that are constantly questioned, crossed, and redefined within social, political, and technological practices.

    The fifth volume of Etica-mente. L’annuario is devoted to a philosophical analysis of the concept of limit in its ethical, normative, and anthropological dimensions. The contributions examine the limit as boundary and as possibility, as a criterion of responsibility, and as a site of tension between finitude and transgression.

    From different theoretical perspectives, the issue addresses themes such as the limits of the body and of action, the limits of technology, law, and power, the thresholds of moral responsibility, and contemporary tendencies toward the denial or displacement of limits. In this way, the limit emerges not merely as a negative restriction, but as a constitutive element of individual and collective life.

    The volume aims to contribute to a critical reflection on the concept of limit as a key category for understanding transformations of the human condition and for rethinking the ethical conditions of coexistence in contemporary societies.

  • Vol. 6 (2025)

    Care is a central category of contemporary ethics, intertwining anthropological, moral, political, and social dimensions. Far from being confined to the private sphere or to healthcare practices alone, care appears as a fundamental mode of being-in-relation and as a key concept for understanding individual and collective responsibility.

    The latest volume of Etica-mente. L’annuario is devoted to a philosophical reflection on the concept of care, explored in its theoretical and practical articulations. The contributions address care as a response to vulnerability, as a structure of embodied experience, and as an ethical principle capable of orienting action in everyday life, institutional contexts, and technological transformations.

    The issue examines themes such as care for others, care of the self, care of social and urban spaces, as well as the tensions between care, autonomy, and justice. Within this framework, care emerges as a critical category for rethinking social bonds and the conditions of coexistence in contemporary societies marked by widespread fragility and new forms of dependency.

    The volume aims to contribute to an ongoing philosophical debate that understands care not merely as a moral attitude, but as a constitutive dimension of the human condition and an essential normative horizon for ethics today.