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.