The Philosophy of Education of Giovanni Gentile
Abstract
The movement in Italy known as Neo-Hegellanism, although relatively unknown to English readers, has great importance in the history of modern philosophy. The two leaders of this movement are Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile. These men claim that they are the inheritors of the best in philosophic thought of the past and that their philosophy of actual idealism is the forerunner of a new Humanism. This Humanism, while it vindicates the validity of the moral law and the freedom of the human spirit, will at the same time destroy naturalism with its denial of spiritual values and supernaturalism with its transcendent deity and the Catholic Church as its infallible witness.
Subject Area
Education philosophy|Philosophy|Education
Recommended Citation
Lynn, John Finbar, "The Philosophy of Education of Giovanni Gentile" (1942). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28927803.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28927803
