The Actuality of Gentile's Philosophy of History

Richard Peters

The Actuality of Gentile's Philosophy of History

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Abstract

This essay reconstructs Gentile's conception of history as the product of the eternal act of thinking. Peters charts the development of this distinctive position, presenting it as a sustained attempt to unite past and present, fact and value, thought and action within a single theory. He argues, that, despite a number of weaknesses that Gentile neclected to consider and the regrettable, dubious extremes to which he extended his theory in the Fascist period, it deserves greater attention from today's historians of philosophy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Thought Thinking
Subtitle of host publication	The Philosophy of Giovanni Gentile
Editors	Bruce Haddock, James Wakefield
Publisher	Imprint Academics
Pages	164-200
Number of pages	36
ISBN (Print)	ISBN 9781845407957
Publication status	Published - 1-Jun-2015

Keywords

Giovanni Gentile
Actualism
Philosophy of history
theory and action
ethics of knowing

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