Vol 8, No 1. 2017.
Peer-reviewed online journal.
A multidisciplinary forum for research bridging
between academic ethics and social practice.
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Cover photo: Università Degli Studi Di Torino – Savigliano seat (Summer School CeSPeC 2016), photo by E. Nowak.
EDITORIAL TEAM Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Ewa Nowak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Dept. of Social Sciences, Poland
Executive Editor
Tomasz Raburski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Dept. of Social Sciences, Poland
Academic Editor
Prof. Dr. Georg Lind, University of Konstanz, Dept. of Psychology, Germany
Prof. Dr. Jason Matzke, Univ. of Mary Wahsington, Dept. of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion, USA
Prof. Dr. Roma Kriauciuniene, Vilnius University, Dept. of English for Physical and Biomedical Sciences, Lithuania
Dr. Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo, Université Catholique de Louvain-la- Neuve, Dept. of Philosophy, Belgium
Technical Editor I
Mag. Joanna Dutka, Adam Mickiewicz University, Dept. of Social Sciences, Poland
Technical Editor II
Mag. Filip Bardziński, Adam Mickiewicz University, Dept. of Social Sciences, Poland
Design Editor
Mag. Alicja Skrzypczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Dept. of Social Sciences, Poland
Internet Resources Editor
Dr. Marcin Jan Byczyński, Adam Mickiewicz University, Dept. of
Social Sciences, Poland
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CONTENTS Preface
1) Editors’ Introduction. Futures: Imagining the World of Tomorrow;
Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo, Cristina Rebuffo, Luisa Maggio pp. 3-11
Core topics-related articles
2) Man and Future: a Palaeontological and Chronological Foundation of
Cassirer's Definition of Man as Animal Symbolicum; Luigi Laino pp. 12-40 3) Life’s Forces That Sustain and Drive Our Existence Towards.
Efforts of Steering One’s Life Through Time; Bianca Bellini pp. 41-60 4) Confessione e biografia: per un avvenire fondato nella storia.
Note a partire da Jacques Derrida e Jean-Luc Marion;
Francesca Peruzzotti pp. 61-74
5) Le présent altéré; Gemma Serrano pp. 75-88
6) Limit and Creation. Towards an Ethic of Self-Limitation in the Digital Era;
Alessandro De Cesaris pp. 89-100
7) Digital Platforms: A New Grammar for Territories?; Stéphane Grumbach pp. 101-116 8) Costruire scenari per il futuro; Silvano Tagliagambe pp. 117-146 9) Nihilism and the Problem of Future: Biodiversity Destruction
As One of the Great Dangers of Technology?; Jelson Oliveira pp. 147-155 10) Social Dilemmas in Environmental Economics and Policy Considerations:
A Review; Nicola Cerutti pp. 156-173
11) Legami capaci di futuro: dalle basi intersoggettive dello sviluppo della persona all’esperienza dello “stare” in relazione. Attaccamento,
fiducia, desiderio e cura nei rapporti interpersonali; Gian Sandro Lerda pp. 174-196 12) The Right Book to Help Our Ailing Society to Recover;
Roma Kriauciuniene pp. 197-206
13) Moral Competence and Aggression Prevention. Updating MCT Pilot Studies Inspired by Georg Lind’s Book How to Teach Morality.
Promoting Deliberation and Discussion, Reducing
Violence and Deceit (2016); Ewa Nowak, Adrianna Urbañska pp. 207-224 14) For a Future Free of Violence: Moral Competencies As a Means
of Emancipation and Self-Empowerment; Joanna Dutka pp. 225-240 15) The Struggle of Educating. And of Being “A Grown-up”;
Federico Zamengo pp. 241-251
16) Philosophy for Communites al Liceo “Govone” di Mondovì (Italy);
Silvia Bevilacqua, Pierpaolo Casarin pp. 252-262
17) Chinese Adolescents’ Moral Reasoning of Rights Attitudes and Psychological Well-Being; Shaogang Yang, Sharon To,
Charles T. Helwig pp. 263-278
