Giuseppe Ferrari (philosopher)

Giuseppe Ferrari ( born March 7, 1812 in Milan, † July 1, 1876 in Rome ) was an Italian historian, philosopher and politician.

Ferrari studied in Pavia, where he lived in the boarding students Collegio Borromeo. He lived then regardless of his studies and began his writing career with a treatise on his teacher, the philosopher Giovanni Domenico Romagnosi. This was followed by an edition of the collected works of Giambattista Vico (1835 ) and some writings in French.

Since 1840 he worked as a professor of literature in Rochefort. However, a post he had to retire because of his liberal direction. In January 1842 his philosophical chair at the University of Strasbourg was transferred to recommendation Cousins ​​; but after 18 days he was deposed again at the instigation of Ultramontanes. His lectures were published as " Idees sur la politique de Platon et d' Aristote " (Paris 1842).

After the February Revolution of 1848 he was employed by Carnot back into his office. He worked on it in Bourges, but here was also suspended soon returned and in 1859 returned to Italy, where he became professor in Turin and Milan was sequentially. As a member of the Piedmontese Parliament, he was a violent opponent of Cavour's policy of annexation. Since then continuously deputy, he died July 1, 1876 in Rome.

Works

  • Collected works of Vico (1835 )
  • Vico et Italie ( Paris 1839)
  • De l' erreur (Paris 1840)
  • De religiosi Campanellae opinionibus (Paris 1840)
  • Essay sur le principe et les limites de la philosophie de l' histoire (Paris 1843)
  • Filosofia de la rivoluzione ( Capolago 1851, 2nd edition, Milan, 1873, 2 volumes) - this is his major philosophical work in which he the doctrine of the " antinomies " for " invincible " explains and last of the insoluble contradictions that the pure thoughts adhere, shows the way in reconciling the immediacy of real life.
  • La Federazione republlcana ( Capolago 1851) - an exposition of his theory of free brotherhood of peoples, to which he held with fixed - doctrinaire obstinacy.
  • L' histoire de l'Italie of revolutlons, ou Guelfes et Glbelins (Paris 1856-58, 4 volumes)
  • L' histoire de la raison d' etat (Paris 1860)
  • Storia de la rivoluzione d'Italia ( Milan 1871-73, 3 volumes)
  • Teoria de periodic politici "(Paris 1874)
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