Il cerchio del possibile. Identità, organismo e persona nella "Philosophie der Natur" di Nicolai Hartmann

The present doctoral thesis focuses on two main aims. On the one side, it is a critical exposition of the main contents of Nicolai Hartmann’s “Philosophie der Natur” (1951), i.e. of the categories of the natural ontology developed by the philosopher; on the other side, the present work wants to propose a specific perspective consisting in highlighting, besides of the ontological-categorical issues, of analysis and materials belonging to the fields of ethics and philosophical anthropology. Related to the second aim are Hartmann’s observations on personal identity as a form of non-substantial permanence, on self-perception by the human being, on man’s action in the world, on the relations between human beings and living matter. Always relating to the second aim, the thesis aims at establishing an analogy between the studied word of Hartmann and Kant’s “Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View”.