Phenomenology and Mind

No. 8 (2015): Philosophy and the Future of Europe
Session 2. Europe in Philosophy: Authors and Traditions

Philosophical revolution and the shaping of European consciousness: Bertrando Spaventa’s La filosofia italiana nelle sue relazioni con la filosofia europea

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  • Fernanda Gallo
Fernanda Gallo
University of Lugano
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-17747

Published 2015-12-22

Keywords

  • Bertrando Spaventa,
  • Risorgimento,
  • Civic Consciousness,
  • Renaissance

How to Cite

Gallo, F. (2015). Philosophical revolution and the shaping of European consciousness: Bertrando Spaventa’s La filosofia italiana nelle sue relazioni con la filosofia europea. Phenomenology and Mind, (8), 212–222. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-17747
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Abstract

The relevance that Bertrando Spaventa gave to the role of philosophy in the construction of a moral and political Italian consciousness and, more in general, of a European one, is still useful to reflect on the relationship between philosophy and the future of Europe. In this paper I reviewed Spaventa’s work La filosofia italiana nelle sue relazioni con la filosofia europea (1862), where the author recognized how important it was to rekindle in Italian citizens the ancient idea of moral liberty, conceptualized during the Renaissance, in order to provide the political input for the creation of Italians.

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