Aldo Capitini

Aldo Capitini ( born December 23, 1899 in Perugia, † October 19, 1968 in Perugia ) was an Italian philosopher, anti-fascist and pacifist.

Life

1924 Capitini visited the University in Pisa and graduated after four years with the MD into philosophy. He worked as a secretary and became a vegetarian. In 1933 he refused a required by his employer joining the Partito Nazionale Fascista and was discharged. After the liberation of Italy in April 1945, he was for two years President of the University for foreign students in Perugia. He sponsored international conferences on religious reform and a link between East and West in the world in the context of non-violence. To this end, he also started a center of religious orientation. Capitini supported at this time the first conscientious objector of Italy Pietro Pinna, who was sentenced to four years in prison. From then on he was known as the " father of non-violence in Italy ".

1961 brought Aldo Capitini the Italian flag of truce to Italy, which he had previously discovered at pacifists in England. He is also the founder of the annual peace march from Perugia to Assisi. In 1964 he brought together Pinna the monthly magazine Azione Nonviolenta out and established at the national level Movimento Nonviolento pursuing a non-violent policy in Italy. During the social unrest in the 1960s Capitini tried a non-violent political program within the student movement to introduce ( Il potere è di tutti All people have the power ). He died in October 1968 after an operation.

In his honor, in Bolzano ( South Tyrol), an international congress from 17 to June 19, 2011 held under the motto " The long march of nonviolence. Aldo Capitini and the 50th anniversary of the peace march Perugia - Assisi ".

Works (selection)

  • The technique of non-violent resistance, Wuppertal -Barmen, Youth Service -Verlag, 1969
  • Opposizione Liberation, 1991
  • Il potere di tutti .. 1969
  • Antifascismo tra i giovani, 1966
  • Scritti e filosofici religiosi, 1998
  • La dei morti compresenza e dei Viventi, 1966
  • Il fanciullo nella Liberation dell'uomo, 1953
  • La nonviolenza oggi, 1962
  • Nuova socialità e riformi religiosa, 1950
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