Author: Maurizio Bisogno

Maximum Wage Cap: right or wrong?

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Mr. Corbyn’s proposition to introduce a maximum wage cap deserves more attention than has attracted so far in the media. The article by Prof. Vittorio Bufacchi (Pay caps are neither economically crazy nor morally wrong, The Irish Times, 12-Jan-2017) is a good step in this direction. Allow me to add some considerations on this topic. The question of establishing a limit for highest earners based on a ratio between their salary and their employees is not a new one; Mr. Corbyn suggests that this ratio should be 20:1, i.e. a boss should not have a salary which is 20 times

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The true nature of the human body

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If your consciousness has solidified in the body, then your reality can only be material, solid, fixed, and its laws are inevitable for you. Our body has its reasons. This body has its needs that we can not ignore. The senses are the doors to our mind. But the body functions somewhat independently from the mind. The body is itself thinking. The brain isn’t the seat of all thoughts. The thought is generated in that part of the body where is your consciousness. The body does not give you peace of mind until you have satisfied his demands. The only

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L’attualità del discorso sulle libertà civili (3)

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(3) Il punto da sottolineare è che non solo la nostra interpretazione della vita dovrebbe essere libera, ma anche i nostri desideri e i nostri impulsi, fermo restando che accettiamo le conseguenze delle nostre scelte. Per quanto riguarda gli impulsi, Mill sostiene che la loro forza, la loro irruenza, non è un male in quanto essa rappresenta il livello di energia di un individuo. Anche se c’è il rischio che questa energia possa essere diretta verso fini negativi, resta vero che “una natura piena di energia può fare molto più bene di una indolente che una passiva”, p.87. La società

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