Oltre la compartimentalizzazione: ricomporre i frammenti dell'esistenza e ripensare il senso della ricerca filosofica

This study seeks to explore the notion of compartmentalization, drawing on the insights and perspectives offered by Alasdair MacIntyre in his last book Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity. I begin by examining several key passages in which he critiques compartmentalization as a phenomenon typical of advanced modernity (1). I then trace these insights back to their original psychological and sociological contexts, and I connect them to similar reflections found in MacIntyre’s earlier writings. This issue emerges as a fundamental concern throughout this philosophical work, one to which he has returned at various stages (2). Next, starting from MacIntyre’s theses, I highlight some of the “costs” that compartmentalization entails for moral life (3). Finally, I focus on the aspiration to restore philosophical enquiry to the unity of human life, beyond academic specialization and disciplinary fragmentation (4).