L'immagine della ragione in Piero Martinetti. Un programma di ricerca filosofica: tra metafisica e scienza, tra esperienza e coscienza

The privileged view of this work deals with the philosophy-science nexus in Martinetti (very little or not at all investigated by the critics), according to the Wundtian metaphysical-idealistic conscientialism, fundamental theoretical matrix of his thought. Piero Martinetti, the only Italian philosopher who refused the oath to fascism in 1931, is one of the most original Italian thinkers of the first half of the twentieth century, with a European profile. From the focus on the theory of knowledge which originally re-elaborates the idealistic-religious perspective with Kantian basis, the study shows an unusual crossing of the Canavese philosopher’s work beyond the usual historiographical topos (of reductively meant religious idealism and spiritualism), through Wundt's and also Mach's points of view. The four sections of the research (dedicated to the historical-philosophical frame of Martinetti’s thought and examination of two important writings: the Introduction to Metaphysics and the unfinished Metaphysics) contribute to delineate the image of a new trans-intra disciplinary research program, aimed at keeping allied the plural forms of knowledge of human reason, focusing on “marginal” details and favouring the systemic view of today's “challenge of complexity”. So reason and faith, knowledge and will, metaphysics and science can be combined for the shared world commitment and for the common good, respecting the interdisciplinary slant of the Doctoral Course in Law and Humanities.