Titolo Il luogo delle passioni nella deliberazione. Ciò che la democrazia deliberativa può apprendere dalla retorica aristotelica Periodico Filosofia politica Anno: 2009 - Volume: 23 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 453 - Pagina finale: 476
The aim of this paper is to defend an adequate reading of Aristotle's deliberative rhetoric that allows us to understand practical rationalization as a process of interpretation of human actions. After the consideration of rhetoric as a general human ability that is indispensable for political coexistence, the impact of the Aristotelian rhetorical proposal is pressed, not just as a defense of the importance of rhetoric in a democratic society, but also as a novel attempt to understand what it means to speak of practical rationality.