Bertrando Spaventa

Bertrando Spaventa ( born June 26, 1817 in Bomba, Chieti Province; † 20 February 1883 in Naples ) was an Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Life

Bertrando Spaventa was the elder son of Eustachio Spaventa and his wife Maria Croce. The future politician Silvio Spaventa was his younger brother. After attending school in his hometown Spaventa was with his brother - supported by a fellowship of relatives - visit the Jesuit College in Chieti. After successfully completing his studies sent him the Society of Jesus as a teacher at the seminary to Montecassino. There Spaventa was then ordained a priest.

In 1840 Spaventa worked as a teacher in Naples and also completed his studies. Especially by Antonio Tari and Ottavio Colecchi Spaventa was affected to deal with the theories of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Immanuel Kant.

1846 Spaventa founded his own school, a small group of interested students, but in addition to philosophical and current political issues discussed partly controversial. Already in the following year was this school " in the sedition suspicion" and was closed by the authorities.

In the same year Spaventa took at General Francesco Pignatelli, Prince of Strongoli, a job as a tutor at. When he went to Florence in 1849 for political reasons into exile Spaventa accompanied him.

In 1850 it came to a radical break in life Bertrando Spaventas. He left his order, quit his job as a tutor and settled as a journalist in Turin. In his first releases there Spaventa themed for the most part, the philosophical and political setting of the Jesuit Order. Under the premise that religion is only a step in the basic development of the mind, Spaventa was bound to the authority of the Pope claim to reject.

In 1859 Spaventa a reputation as a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Modena, where he teaches philosophy of law. In the fall of 1860 brought to the University of Bologna where he found him focussed on the philosophy of law. Besides some minor writings, he was able to establish itself as a philosopher in the same year with his work " La filosofia di e la sua Kant relazione colla filosofia italiana ". Add Augusto Vera, he found it a dedicated fellow. In this work, he attempted to carry proof that Antonio Rosmini despite his polemics against Kant but coincided mainly with the German philosopher.

1861 brought one Spaventa as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Naples, where he naturally became his teaching but also through its publications to an important representative of German Idealism. His major work, " La filosofia di Gioberti " sat very critical with the theories Vincenzo Gioberti apart and his epistemology was based largely on the " phenomenology " of Hegel.

Spaventa also addressed the theories of non- Italian Renaissance philosopher as Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel, Immanuel Kant and Baruch Spinoza, and set them his " circularity Italian philosophy" and tried to develop it. The summary by the philosopher Vincenzo Gioberti is indeed philosophically controversial, but encountered some but on interest.

Between 1867 and 1876 worked as a deputy in the Italian Parliament Spaventa and was involved as such instrumental in the founding of the journal Giornale di filosofia e lettere napoletano. Around 1875 Spaventa gave up teaching for reasons of age and devoted the last years of his life, only the research. From 1876 he was a corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. At the age of 65 Bertrando Spaventa died on 20 February 1883 in Naples.

Works (selection)

  • La filosofia di e la sua Kant relazione colla filosofia italiana. Turin 1860
  • Carattere e della filosofia italiana sviluppo. Modena 1860
  • Le prime categorie della logica di Hegel. Naples 1864
  • Spazio e tempo nella prima forma del sistema di Gioberti. Naples 1865
  • Il concetto dell ' opposizione e lo Spinozismo. Naples 1867
  • La scolastica e Cartesio. Naples 1867
  • Saggi di filosofia critica, e politica religiosa ( studies of Giordano Bruno, Tommaso Campanella, Terenzio Mamiani etc.) Naples 1867
  • Paolottismo, positivismo, Razionalismo. Bologna 1868
  • Studi sull ' etica di Hegel. Naples 1869
  • Idealismo o realismo. Naples 1874
  • La legge del più forte. Naples 1874
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