Grice ed Orsi: l’implicatura conversazionale -- filosofia
fascista – filosofia siciliana – filosofia italiana -- Luigi Speranza (Palma di Montechiaro). Filosofo italiano. Grice: “Orsi uses ‘psicologia
speculativa’ where I would use ‘psicologia filosofica,’ since speculativa opposes
to prattica, rather!” --Allievo di Ottaviano, insegna a Catania. Pubblica nella
sua attività di ricerca scritti minori di autori italiani e il saggio “Gl’hegeliani di Napoli.” Cura l'edizione
dell'opera di Ottaviano su Campailla; “La psicologia filosofica di Spaventa” –
e stato nella segreteria della rivista “Sophia”. Altri saggi: “Lo spirito come
atto puro,” “La filosofia moderna,” “L'uomo al bivio: immanentismo o
cristianesimo? Saggio di realismo esistenziale, “Antropologia”; “Psiche e meta-fisica”
“Psicologia speculativa” “Sulla psico-patia”. Grice: “The D’Orsi – and indeed a
Domenico D’Orsi, back in the 1700s, are a very noble family in Sicily. D’Orsi
is associated with “Sophia”, founded by Ottaviano. His interests have been many
and varied – but most notably philosophical psychology, which the Italians call
‘psicologia speculativa’ as opposed to cheap scientific psychology. They have
the great Spaventa, who philosophized on the most abstract issues concerning
the old Roman idea of an ‘animo’. Compared to what Ryle’s and Watson’s
psychological behaviourism is a no-no-no!” D’Orsi has philosophized on
democracy. I democratici can be ingenuii, as I prefer them, or critici. He has
also ‘cured’ the edition of Ottaviano on Campailla, and went continental to
study Napoli!” Grice: “Orsi has done a lot to allow us to understand Spaventa.
As most Italians, Spaventa was fascinated by the Hun, and cared to trasnalte a
book that the Hun never cared to read: Lotze’s Elementi di psicologia
speculativa. I can imagine Spaventa wondering what he was doing, bringing
Lotze’s ‘seele’ as ‘animo’. The ‘elements’ by Lotze, as translated by Spaventa,
are elementary enough – but the section on the ‘soul/body’ (anima/corpo),
‘animo/corpo, corpo animato, corpo inanimate) is interesting. But far more
interesting is Orsi’s unearthing Spaventa’s “Psiche e metafisica” – not to be
confused with LABRIOLA’s essay by the same name. This is a hodge podge of
reflections. But mainly anti-materialistic. While an emergentist, Spaventa (as
discovered by Orsi) struggles to understand the connection between ‘sentire’
and ‘sentito’ and more generally, between the ‘sentire’ as a processo
fisiologico – Spaventa goes on to distinguish three levels of the ‘sentire’ –
the first is the processo fisiologico itself, the second is what Spaventa, as
unearthed by Orsi, calls the ‘unita distintiva del sentito’, and the third is
the ‘unita reflessiva del sentito’ or ‘raprresentazione’. So if you feel cold,
there’s cold qua processo fisiologico of a ‘corpo animato’ – ‘uninanimated
bodies cannot FEEL cold’ – second there is the unity of COLDNESS as distinctive
from say, HEAT. And third there is the concetto ‘’freddo’ – so that there is a
‘unita reflessiva del sentito’ – the expression ‘freddo’ now NAMES or
represents, or stands for the sensation itself. Domenico D’Orsi. Orsi.
Keywords: animo, amore, Ottaviano, Campailla, Spaventa, gl’hegeliani di Napoli,
Sophia. Refs.: Luigi Speranza, “Grice ed Orsi” – The Swimming-Pool Library.
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