TY -  JOUR
PY -  2012
SN -  1972-5558
T1 -  De nobis ipsis silemus. Sulla morte di Immanuel Kant
JO -  RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
DA -  2/15/2012 12:00:00 AM
DO -  10.3280/SF2012-001016
UR -  http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/Scheda_rivista.aspx?idArticolo=44628
AU -  Pettoello, Renato
SP -  203
EP -  213
IS -  1
VL -  LXVII
LA -  FR
AB -  The description of Immanuel Kant’s last days and of the phrenological and craniometric studies of his skull gives the Author the opportunity to discuss the philosophical validity of biographies and more in general to re-examine the vexata quaestio of the relationship between philosophy and history of philosophy. Here the Author supports the thesis that, for the most part, any reference to the biographies of philosophers is essentially of no use – their works have to be judged as such, independently of whoever wrote them and also to a large extent of the historical context – and that there is the need to get back to a philosophical history of philosophy, while still maintaining the very rigorous approach to which the history of philosophy has accustomed us in the last few decades.
PB -  FrancoAngeli
ER -