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Giovanni Gentile

Italian philosopher, educator, fascist theoretician and politician (1875–1944)

For the composer, see Giovanni Gentile (composer). For the 16th-century Italian humanist, see Giovanni Valentino Gentile.

Giovanni Gentile

Gentile in the 1930s

In office
25 July 1943 – 15 April 1944
MonarchVictor Emmanuel III
Preceded byLuigi Federzoni
Succeeded byGiotto Dainelli Dolfi
In office
31 October 1922 – 1 July 1924
Prime MinisterBenito Mussolini
Preceded byAntonino Anile [it]
Succeeded byAlessandro Casati
In office
5 November 1922 – 5 August 1943
Appointed byVictor Emmanuel III
Born(1875-05-30)30 May 1875
Castelvetrano, Kingdom of Italy
Died15 April 1944(1944-04-15) (aged 68)
Florence, Italian Social Republic
Manner of deathAssassination by gunshot
Resting placeSanta Croce,
Florence, Italy
Political partyNational Fascist Party
(1923–1943)
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Spouse

Erminia Nudi

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Actual idealism

Philosophical system of Giovanni Gentile

For the philosophical approach in analytic philosophy, see Actualism.

Actual idealism is a form of idealism, developed by Giovanni Gentile, that was influenced by the absolute idealism of G. W. F. Hegel.

Doctrine

Gentile calls his philosophy "actualism" or "actual idealism", because, in it, the only true reality is the pure act of the "thinking that thinks",[1] i.e. self-consciousness in the present moment, in which the spirit that comprises all existing is manifested. Reality lies in the productive and self-creative act of thinking, rather than in the object thought.[2]

The Spirit is Thought, and Thought is a perennial activity in which there is no distinction between subject and object. Gentile therefore opposes any dualism and naturalism claiming the unity of nature and spirit (monism), that is spirit and matter within the thinking consciousness, giving it a gnoseological and ontological primacy. Consciousness is seen as a synthesis of subject and object, synthesis of an act in wh

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Giovanni Gentile

Giovanni Gentile (30 May 1875 – 15 April 1944) was an Italian neo-Hegelianidealist philosopher, educator, and fascist politician, and a peer of Benedetto Croce. The self-styled "philosopher of Fascism", he was influential in providing an intellectual foundation for Italian Fascist thought, and ghostwrote part of The Doctrine of Fascism (1932) with Benito Mussolini.

Quotes

  • For Fascism...the State and the individual are one, or better, perhaps, "State" and "individual" are terms that are inseparable in a necessary synthesis.
    • Origins and Doctrine of Fascism, trans. A. James Gregor, Transaction Publishers (2011), p. 25
  • Fascism as a consequence of its Marxian and Sorelian patrimony . . . conjoined with the influence of contemporary Italianidealism, through which Fascist thought attained maturity, conceives philosophy as praxis.
    • Origini e dottrina del fascismo, Rome (1929) p. 58, A. James Gregor, The Ideology of Fascism: The Rationale of Totalitarianism, New York: NY, The Free Press (1969) p. 317
  • The Fascist, on the other hand,

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