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Aperias of European integration: between humanitarian universalism and sovereignism is the result of a study and research process that involved researchers from the University of Évora and the Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política (CICP) in Portugal and scholars from the DSU of Federico II in Naples and other prestigious Italian universities. The book, divided into three sections, deals with the conflict between universalism - understood as a philosophical principle of the Western cultural tradition and as a juridical-political principle at the basis of the integration process - and the principle of sovereignty, which instead tends to preserve the political autonomy of states in the process of integration. Contributions by: Peluso, Morfino, Cacciatore, Giannini, Rocha Chuna, Boemio, Basso, Amendola, Arienzo, Tinè, Höbel Donato, D'Acunto. Aporie dell’integrazione europea: tra universalismo umanitario e sovranismo è frutto di un percorso di studio e di ricerca che ha coinvolto studiosi afferenti all’Università di Évora e al Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política (CICP) in Portogallo e studiosi del DSU della Federico II di Napoli e di altre prestigiose università italiane. Il volume articolato in tre sezioni, affronta con un approccio interdisciplinare, la tensione tra l’universalismo – inteso tanto come principio filosofico proprio della tradizione culturale occidentale, quanto come principio giuridico-politico che è alla base del processo di integrazione – e il principio di sovranità che invece tende a preservare l’autonomia politica degli stati all’interno del processo di integrazione. Contributi di: Peluso, Morfino, Cacciatore, Giannini, Rocha Chuna, Boemio, Basso, Amendola, Arienzo, Tinè, Höbel Donato, D’Acunto.

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The notion of "human rights" is widely used in political and moral discussions. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an eminently practical function: It allows moral criticism of various wrongs and calls for action in order to prevent them. On the other hand it is unclear what exactly a human right is. Human rights lack a convincing conceptual foundation that would be able to compel the wrong-doer to accept human rights claims as well-founded. Hence the practical function faces theoretical doubts. The present collection takes up the tension between the wide political use of human rights claims and the intellectual skepticism about them. In particular two major issues are identified that call for conceptual clarification in order to better understand human rights claims both in theory and in practice: the question of how to justify human rights and the tension between universal normative claims and particular moralities.

Human rights --- Philosophy. --- Ethics. --- Human Rights. --- Justification. --- Universalism. --- Human rights - Philosophy --- Philosophy

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Universalism. --- Civilization. --- Eurocentrism. --- Valeurs sociales --- Universalisme. --- Eurocentrisme. --- Civilisation occidentale. --- European Cultural Colonialism. --- Aspect politique. --- Droit d'ingérence humanitaire --- Universalisme européen --- --Universalisme --- --Universalisme européen --- --Rationalism --- Droit d'ingérence humanitaire --- --Universalism. --- Rationalism --- Eurocentrism --- Humanitarian intervention --- Rationalisme --- Eurocentrisme --- Universalisme

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International relations --- Hegemony --- Universalism --- Islamic fundamentalism --- Religion and politics --- United States --- Foreign relations --- International relations - 21st century --- Hegemony - United States --- United States - Foreign relations - 21st century

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This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for an understanding of those cataclysmic forces, not always theological, that helped convert the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity. Porphyry, a disciple of Plotinus, was the last and greatest anti-Christian writer to vehemently attack the Church before the Constantinian revolution. His contribution to the pagan-Christian debate on universalism can thus shed light on the failure of paganism and the triumph of Christianity in late antiquity. In a broader historical and cultural context this study will address some of the issues central to the debate on universalism, in which Porphyry was passionately involved and which was becoming increasingly significant during the unprecedented series of economic, cultural, political, and military crises of the third century. As the author will argue, Porphyry may have failed to find one way of salvation for all humanity, he nonetheless arrived a hierarchical soteriology, something natural for a Neoplatonist, which resulted in an integrative religious and philosophical system. His system is examined in the context of other developing ideologies of universalism, during a period of unprecedented imperial crises, which were used by the emperors as an agent of political and religious unification. Christianity finally triumphed over its competitors owing to its being perceived to be the only universal salvation cult that was capable of bringing about this unification. In short, it won due to its unique universalist soteriology. By examining a rival to Christianity's concept of universal salvation, this book will be valuable to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, patristics, church history, and late antiquity.Review: "Simmons demonstrates command of sources in Greek, Latin and Syriac...for those interested in Porphyry's response to Christianity, this will likely be the volume of choice for some considerable time."

Salvation --- Universalism. --- Salut --- Universalisme --- Comparative studies. --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Etudes comparatives --- Christianisme --- Histoire des doctrines --- Porphyry, --- Rome --- Religion. --- Religion --- Porphyre, --- Salus extra ecclesiam --- Universal salvation --- Salvation after death --- Porphyrios, --- Porphyrius --- Porphyrius, --- Porfirio, --- Malchus, --- Porfiryus, --- פורפוריוס --- פורפיריוס, --- Πορφύριος, --- Histoire des doctrines. --- Porfirio --- Porphyrius Neoplatonicus --- Porphyrius Tyrius, Philosophus --- Porphyry --- Porphyre --- Universalism