Enrico Berti

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Enrico Berti (3 November 1935 – 5 January 2022) was an Italian philosopher. He was professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Padua.[1]

Biography

Born in Valeggio sul Mincio, Italy, Berti graduated in philosophy in 1957 at the University of Padua, and after a few years teaching at the University of Perugia he was professor in his alma mater for almost forty years.[2] His major interest was Aristotle, to whom he dedicated many works, and of whom he made his own translation of the Metaphysics, published in 2017.[2]

During his life Berti has received numerous honors, including the title of Academician of Lincei and the appointment of Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic.[1] His Storia della filosofia. Dall’antichità a oggi ("History of Philosophy. From antiquity to today") is used as the manual of philosophy in many Italian schools and universities.[1][2] Berti died on 5 January 2022, at the age of 86.[2]

Thought

Berti proposed a systematic classification of the

metaphyisics that appeared in the history of philosophy. He proposed a differentiation between immanentistic metaphysics and transcendentistic
metaphysics.

The immanentist metaphysics find the ultimate cause of the world of experience within the latter. They are divided in turn into

.

Transcendentist metaphysics postulate that the ultimate cause of the world of experience is outside it: it may be found in

.

In the metaphysics of experience, philosophy takes on the task of demonstrating with as much rigor as possible the necessity of a transcendent principle, considering it in itself not self-evident. Belonging to this paradigm are the philosophy of Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas (in the Five Ways) and Gustavo Bontadini, author of the volume Saggio di una metafisica dell'esperienza (Essay on a Metaphysics of Experience).[3]

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b c "Morto Enrico Berti, il filosofo si è spento a 86 anni: ha insegnato all'Università di Padova". Il Messaggero. 5 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "Filosofia . Addio a Enrico Berti, ritrovò Aristotele nel Novecento". Avvenire. 5 January 2022.
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