Marcello Pera

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Marcello Pera
President of the Senate of the Republic
In office
30 May 2001 – 27 April 2006
Preceded byNicola Mancino
Succeeded byFranco Marini
Member of the Senate of the Republic
Assumed office
13 October 2022
ConstituencySassari
In office
9 May 1996 – 14 March 2013
ConstituencyLucca (1996–2006)
Emilia-Romagna (2006–2008)
Lazio (2008–2013)
Personal details
Born (1943-01-28) 28 January 1943 (age 81)
Lucca, Kingdom of Italy
Political partyFdI (since 2022)
Other political
affiliations		PSI (until 1994)
FI (1994–2009)
PdL (2009–2013)
Alma materUniversity of Pisa
ProfessionPhilosopher
Politician

Marcello Pera (Italian pronunciation:

Italian Senate from 2001 to 2006.[2]

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Pera was born in

Camera di Commercio in Lucca. He went on to study philosophy at the University of Pisa, concentrating on the works of Karl Popper and his open society theory, and advocating these principles during the difficult 1970s, the anni di piombo
.

His academic career began in 1976 at the University of Pisa. He then went on to pursue research activities internationally: Fulbright scholar, University of Pittsburgh, 1984; Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990; visiting fellow, Centre for the Philosophy of Natural Sciences, London School of Economics, 1995–96. He taught theoretical philosophy from 1989 to 1992 at the University of Catania. In 1992, he became a full professor of philosophy at the University of Pisa.

Pera has written for the newspapers

post-modernism and cultural relativism and on this subject, he resonates with religious thinkers. Opposing cultural relativism, he declared, "There are good reasons for deeming that some institutions are better than others. And I deny that such a judgment must necessarily lead to a clash."[3]

Opposing the postmodern denial of the possibility of ascertaining objective facts, he says, "Against deconstructionism, I do not deny that facts do not exist without interpretation. I refute

Derrida's "there is nothing beyond the text" (J. Derrida, Of Grammatology)."[3]

In the Senate

He was elected as a Senator for Forza Italia in 1996 and 2001.[2] During the XIV Legislature, he was President of the Senate from May 30 to April 27, 2006.[4] He was re-elected to the Senate in 2006 and 2008.[2]

Dialogue with Pope Benedict XVI

An atheist,

Joseph Ratzinger titled Senza radici ("Without Roots") and is the author of the introduction to the book originally titled L'Europa di Benedetto nella crisi delle culture, or in short, The Europe of Benedict, written by Ratzinger shortly before he became the pope. It has been reprinted as Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures.[6]

Pera's 2008 book Perché dobbiamo dirci cristiani ("Why We Must Call Ourselves Christians") has a letter-preface by Pope Benedict XVI. Pera is a critic of the policies of

European migrant crisis; he accused the Pope of demanding that European states "commit suicide".[7][8]

Honour

Foreign honour

Publications

  • Induzione e metodo scientifico, Pera M., Editrice Tecnico Scientifica, Pisa, 1978
  • Popper e la scienza su palafitte, Pera M., Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1981
  • Hume, Kant e l'induzione, Pera M., Il Mulino, Bologna, 1982
  • Apologia del Metodo, Pera M., Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1982
  • La Rana ambigua. La controversia sull'eletricità tra Galvana e Volta, Pera M., Einaudi, Torino, 1986; English translation The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1991
  • Scienza e retorica, Pera M., Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1992; translated into English and revised as The Discourses of Science, (Chicago University Press, Chicago 1994
  • Senza radici/Without Roots, Pera M., Ratzinger J.,
    Mondadori
    , Milano 2004, Basic Books, New York 2006; German edition: Sankt Ulrich Verlag, Augsburg 2005; Spanish edition: Peninsula, Barcelona 2006
    • ISBN 978-0465006342
      .
  • Perché dobbiamo dirci cristiani ("Why We Must Call Ourselves Christians"),
    Mondadori
    , Milano 2008; with a letter-preface by Pope Benedict XVI

References

  1. ^ "pera". Dipionline.it.
  2. ^ a b c d Page at Senate website (in Italian).
  3. ^ a b "Senato.it - Il Presidente - Relativism, Christianity and the West". Archived from the original on 12 April 2008. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  4. ^ Senate page for Pera as a member of the XIV Legislature (in French).
  5. ISBN 978-88-07-84068-5
  6. ISBN 978-1-58617-142-1
  7. ^ "Il Papa, la Chiesa e i migranti. Parla Marcello Pera". Formiche. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  8. ^ "Marcello Pera vs Papa Francesco/ "Bergoglio fa politica, è in atto uno scisma nella Chiesa"". Il Sussi Diario. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  9. ^ "Semakan Penerima Darjah Kebesaran, Bintang dan Pingat Persekutuan".
  10. ^ "Resolución N° 1438/003". www.impo.com.uy. Retrieved 30 November 2020.

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