RISULTATI RICERCA

Spesso le coppie si presentano a noi terapeuti, come portatrici di libri contabili come se volessero equilibrare i loro scambi secondo una giustizia commerciale. Però, ogni relazione duratura si basa non sullo scambio commerciale che può interrompersi in ogni momento, ma sulla fede in un fattore trascendentale, che abbiamo chiamato l’assoluto di coppia o racconto fondatore della coppia. Questo fattore introduce nella relazione il ciclo del dono, che non ha limiti nel tempo. Si dona perché si pensa di avere già ricevuto o che si può ricevere dalla propria relazione di coppia. Attraverso metodi che si basano essenzialmente sull’espressione analogica, come il protocollo invariabile di terapia di coppia, si potrà aiutare la coppia a lasciare calcolatrici e libri contabili, e a ritrovare il racconto che fonda la coppia e infine imparare a far evolvere questo racconto.

According to Avicenna, while the action of causes is always necessary, the production of effects may be considered in different ways. With respect to its cause, each effect is necessary, but may be contingent due to the interference of prohibitive impediments. In itself, and in an absolute sense, each effect is contingent. This article deals with the transformations of this model in the Latin Scholastic debate from the end of the 13th to the early decades of the 14th century, taking into consideration Thomas Aquinas, Siger of Brabant, John Duns Scotus and Francis of Marchia. The first defends a kind of ‘providential’ determinism, admitting only a relative, or secundum quid, contingency of sublunary effects with respect to the First Cause. The second, in explicit opposition to Aquinas, upholds the absolute contingency of the world in Avicenna’s sense. Interestingly enough, Siger’s position seems to be implicated in the condemnation of March 1277, not for being too deterministic but for rejecting an absolute ‘providential’ determinism. The last two both refuse to ground true contingency in impedible causes, appealing instead to freedom of will.

The doctrine of constituent power and its repercussions on modern constitutionalism on the one hand and on the theory and applications of modern objective responsibility on the other are two legal elaborations sharing the presence of certain elements that destabilise the legal system. The hypothesis that this research intends to demonstrate is that it is in the nature of modern society, whenever it insists that all its structures be taken as contingent, to generate friction with the function of law.

In this short paper we face the fast developing Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) phenomenon: college courses online, open and free of charge, which are experiencing a tumultuous development over the past two years. We present briefly the debate about the proposed pedagogical models, the key initiatives and the MOOC challenges to the established higher education institution from the point of view of student inclusion, organization and curricula accreditation.