History of Italian Philosophy (Value Inquiry Book Series Vol. 191)

This book is a treasure house of Italian philosophy. Narrating and explaining the history of Italian philosophers from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, the author identifies the specificity, peculiarity, originality, and novelty of Italian philosophical thought in the men and women of the Renaissance. The vast intellectual output of the Renaissance can be traced back to a single philosophical stream beginning in Florence and fed by numerous converging human factors. This work offers historians and philosophers a vast survey and penetrating analysis of an intellectual tradition which has heretofore remained virtually unknown to the Anglophonic world of scholarship. Italy's greatest historian of Renaissance culture, and at the same time its foremost living philosopher... Charles Boer in American Philosophical Society Proceedings Vol. 151, 1 (March 2007) ... Garin reinvented Humanism. Armando Torno in Corriere Della Sera, 30 December 2004 With his studies on the Renaissance, against the too many immanentist and antireligious oversimplifications that considered the Age of the Renaissance as a pure and simple reversed manifestation of the medieval religiosity, Garin saw and taught the continuity between the origin of the Modern Age, and of Science itself, and the inheritance of the late Middle Ages. Gianna Vattimo in La Stampa, 30 December 2004 In opposition to Paul Oskar Kristeller, Garin did not see in Humanism a mere literary and philological event, but a movement endowed with a true and peculiar philosophy, different from the one based on summulae and logic of the Schools, and characterized instead by its new interest in the historical. Moral, and scientific disciplines. Il Tempo, 30 December 2004 Volume I ......Page 6 Volume II ......Page 15 Translator's Preface ......Page 20 Introduction by Leon Pompa......Page 22 1. The Evaluation of the Italian Philosophical Tradition of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The Renaissance Considered as the Beginning of a National Philosophy ......Page 40 2. Vincenzo Gioberti ......Page 43 3. Bertrando Spaventa ......Page 45 4. Roberto Ardigò and the Positivists ......Page 48 5. Giovanni Gentile and the Idealist Historiography......Page 50 6. Conclusive Considerations ......Page 54 Notice ......Page 60 Volume I ......Page 4 Part One: The Medieval Heritage (Chapters 1–7)......Page 62 One. From Boethius to the Thirteenth Century......Page 64 Two. Translations from the Greek and the Arabic......Page 94 Three. St. Bonaventure and Franciscan Thought......Page 102 Four. St. Thomas Aquinas and Thomism......Page 118 Five. Aristotelianism and Averroism ......Page 150 Six. The Thought of Dante ......Page 156 Seven. The Decline of Scholasticism ......Page 178 Part Two: The Age of Humanism (Chapters 8–14)......Page 188 Eight. The Origins of Humanism ......Page 190 Nine. From Petrarch to Salutati......Page 200 Ten. The World of Humanity ......Page 228 Eleven. The Greeks in Italy ......Page 280 Twelve. The School of Marsilio Ficino ......Page 290 Thirteen. The Aristotelians ......Page 342 Fourteen. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola......Page 356 Part Three: The Renaissance (Chapters 15–20) ......Page 388 Fifteen. Aristotelianism from Pomponazzi to Cremonini ......Page 390 Sixteen. Platonic-Aristotelian Syncretism and Philosophy of Love ......Page 440 Seventeen. Between Science and Philosophy ......Page 466 Eighteen. The New Thought from Telesio to Bruno......Page 488 Nineteen. Political and Religious Motives ......Page 550 Twenty. Problems of Aesthetics and Morality ......Page 574 Part Four: The Counter Reformation and the Baroque Age: From Campanella to Vico (Chapters 21–25) ......Page 590 Twenty-One. The Counter Reformation ......Page 592 Twenty-Two. Tommaso Campanella ......Page 622 Twenty-Three. Galileo and His School ......Page 666 Twenty-Four. The New Culture and Its Diffusion ......Page 690 Twenty-Five. Giambattista Vico ......Page 740 Volume II ......Page 776 Part Five: From Enlightenment to Risorgimento (Chapters 26–29)......Page 778 Twenty-Six. The Enlightenment......Page 780 Twenty-Seven. The Traditional Currents of Thought......Page 814 Twenty-Eight. Vico's Inheritance and Ethical Inquiries ......Page 828 Twenty-Nine. The Ideologists ......Page 848 Part Six: Italian Thought during the Risorgimento (Chapters 30–36)......Page 874 Thirty. Southern Italian Thought and Pasquale Galluppi ......Page 876 Thirty-One. Antonio Rosmini and the Rosminian Controversies ......Page 910 Thirty-Two. Vincenzo Gioberti ......Page 956 Thirty-Three. Humanism and Skepticism ......Page 988 Thirty-Four. Spiritualists, Ontologists, Kantians, Mystics, and Thomists ......Page 1002 Thirty-Five. The Hegelians ......Page 1026 Thirty-Six. Positivism ......Page 1042 Part Seven: Italian Thought in the Twentieth Century (Chapters 37 and 38) ......Page 1058 Thirty-Seven. Epilogue: Rebirth and Decline of Idealism ......Page 1060 Thirty-Eight. With Garin, On Italian Thought from 1943 to 2004......Page 1132 Notice ......Page 1182 Abbreviations ......Page 1184 Prologue: Is a National Philosophy Possible? (pp. xxxix-lviii)......Page 1186 One. From Boethius to the Thirteenth Century (pp. 3-32) ......Page 1188 Two. Translations from the Greek and the Arabic (pp. 33-40) ......Page 1201 Three. St. Bonaventure and Franciscan Thought (pp. 41-56)......Page 1204 Four. St. Thomas Aquinas and Thomism (pp. 57-88) ......Page 1209 Five. Aristotelianism and Averroism (pp. 89-94) ......Page 1214 Six. The Thought of Dante (pp. 95-116) ......Page 1216 Seven. The Decline of Scholasticism (pp. 117-126) ......Page 1219 Eight. The Origins of Humanism (pp. 129-138) ......Page 1222 Nine. From Petrarch to Salutati (pp. 139-166) ......Page 1225 Ten. The World of Humanity (pp. 167-218) ......Page 1229 Eleven. The Greeks in Italy (pp. 219-228) ......Page 1239 Twelve. The School of Marsilio Ficino (pp. 229-280) ......Page 1242 Thirteen. The Aristotelians (pp. 281-294) ......Page 1246 Fourteen. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (pp. 295-326) ......Page 1249 Fifteen. Aristotelianism from Pomponazzi to Cremonini (pp. 329-378) ......Page 1251 Sixteen. Platonic Aristotelian Syncretism and Philosophy of Love (pp. 379-404) ......Page 1269 Seventeen. Between Science and Philosophy (pp. 405-426) ......Page 1276 Eighteen. The New Thought from Telesio to Bruno (pp. 427-488) ......Page 1280 Nineteen. Political and Religious Motives (pp. 489-512) ......Page 1285 Twenty. Problems of Aesthetics and Morality (pp. 513-528) ......Page 1289 Twenty-One. The Counter Reformation (pp. 531-560) ......Page 1293 Twenty-Two. Tommaso Campanella (pp. 561-604) ......Page 1297 Twenty-Three. Galileo and His School (pp. 605-628) ......Page 1298 Twenty-Four. The New Culture and Its Diffusion (pp. 629-678) ......Page 1302 Twenty-Five. Giambattista Vico (pp. 679-712) ......Page 1313 Twenty-Six. The Enlightenment (pp. 715-748) ......Page 1315 Twenty-Seven. Traditional Currents of Thought (pp. 749-762) ......Page 1323 Twenty-Eight. Vico's Inheritance and Ethical Inquiries (pp. 763-782) ......Page 1326 Twenty-Nine. The Ideologists (pp. 783-808) ......Page 1328 Thirty. Southern Italian Thought and Pasquale Galluppi (pp. 811-844)......Page 1330 Thirty-One. Antonio Rosmini and the Rosminian Controversies (pp. 845-890)......Page 1334 Thirty-Two. Vincenzo Gioberti (pp. 891-922) ......Page 1337 Thirty-Three. Humanism and Skepticism (pp. 923-936) ......Page 1339 Thirty-Four. Spiritualists, Ontologists, Kantians, Mystics, and Thomists (pp. 937-960) ......Page 1341 Thirty-Five. The Hegelians (pp. 961-976) ......Page 1344 Thirty-Six. Positivism (pp. 977-992) ......Page 1348 Thirty-Seven. Epilogue: Rebirth and Decline of Idealism (pp. 995-1066) ......Page 1350 About the Author ......Page 1364 About the Translator and Editor ......Page 1366 A ......Page 1368 B ......Page 1373 C ......Page 1378 D ......Page 1384 E ......Page 1391 F ......Page 1393 G ......Page 1396 H ......Page 1400 I ......Page 1401 J ......Page 1403 K ......Page 1404 L ......Page 1405 M ......Page 1409 N ......Page 1413 O ......Page 1414 P ......Page 1415 R ......Page 1422 S ......Page 1426 T ......Page 1431 V ......Page 1434 W ......Page 1436 Z ......Page 1437