Absolute
non-dialectic
119
search for the
120
absolute
a. actual i.
161
and contingent
110
and incontrovertibility
2 , 3
and truth
1 , 8 , 10 , 115
can be found in self-awareness
115
creativity of the act
47
forms of the Spirit in Gentile
43
find the absolute in the particular problem
157
idea in Hegel
38
implicit faith in
120
live the absolute
127
man lost its ability to find the absolute
170
metaphysical need for
19
quest for
11 , 13
vs. becoming
119
accountability
228
achievement
140
act(ion)
creative spiritual
57
determining cause of
57
individual and universal responsibility for creative
58
need to consider context of
55
administrators
between capital and labor
74 –75
Adorno, Theodor
7
affirmation
denial and
109
anachronistic tradition
195 , 201
Anaxagoras
35
Anglo-Saxon nations
196
communist parties in
142
anthropology
criminal
15 , 16 , 18 , 54 , 224 , 235 –236
antinomies
72 , 77 , 79 , 95
a. overcome by programmed economy
102
between science vs. antiscience
206
antinomy
22 –28 , 107 , 112 , 120 –121
God as resolution to
111
in problems of contemporary dialectic
109
of thought and nature
111
antiscience
203 –207 , 221
arbitrariness
73 , 84 –85 , 89 , 95
art
116 , 122
Augustine of Hippo
36 , 158
autobiography
philosophical
10 –17
awareness
17 , 33 , 35 , 42 , 109 , 175 , 244
aw. and self-awareness are two forms of aw.
115
actual idealism is metaphysical
17
of the absolute
127
philosophy is no longer
50
yearning for self-awareness
114
banking system
78
banks
capital of shareholders and creditors managed by same administrators
75
becoming
xi , 48 , 118
unification with being
35
vs. being
24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 35 , 36 , 110 , 119
being
xi , xiii
evil, pain, and error as the non-being of the being
42
vs. becoming
24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 35 , 36 , 110 , 119
Bolsheviks
79
Bolshevism
62 , 80
Bontadini, Gustavo
4
Bottai, Giuseppe
60 , 70 , 247
bourgeoisie
141 –144
education offered to
198
mentality of
141 –142 , 150
Bruno, Giordano
34 , 35 , 36 , 247
Buddhism
146
bureaucracy
86
Nation ruling
87
business community
70
Calogero, Guido
xv , 4
capital
fusion of labor and
76
rapprochement between labor and
79
neo-c.
5 , 208 , 210 , 212 –217
neo-c. and communism sharing the industrial and agricultural products
214
Capitalismo e corporativismo (Spirito)
16 , 71 , 81 , 94
capitalization
85
Castelli, Ferdinando
158 , 249
Catholic Church
interpretation of social justice by
141
Catholicism
72
Cavallera, Hervé A
8 , 117
certainty
metaphysical
209
China
145 –146 , 148 –149 , 151 –153
agricultural population
147
attempts to convert C. to Christianity
145
C. culinary tradition
147
engineering education in
152
industrialization in
152
liberation of 1949
150
secular nature of C. culture
146
Christianity
121 , 123 , 145 , 151 , 158 , 196 , 198 , 222
as a Mediterranean, extra-European entity
196
intellectualistic approach of
123
civilization
82 , 93
c. that has flourished and disappeared
108
Christian
121
negative effects of science on
193
class(es)
and democracy
186
c. consciousness
142
c. struggle
76 , 79 , 130 , 141 , 183 , 186 , 188
humanisim influence on middle
193
rapid progress and convergence of
199
social c. and communism
209
Coli, Daniela
8
Colletti, Lucio
xv , 4
commerce
international
194
Italian
64
commune, Chinese
147 –148
communism
4 , 5 , 8 , 69 , 105 , 130 , 132 –133 , 136 , 138 , 143 –145 , 151 –152 , 209 –218
affirmation after wwii
214
anti-
134
bourgeois nature of
142
Chinese
144 –154
Chinese vs. Russian
146
end of
211 –217
hierarchical
91
Italian
187 , 215 –217
limitations of Western
209
Marxist vs. scientific principles
153
materialistic ideal of
97
Russian
133 –144 , 214
Russian vs. Western
135 , 140 –141
scientific
153 –154
social classes and
209
Spirito’s communism was metaphysical
132
Western
133 –134 , 141
community
common goals in
137
competition
84 , 91 , 95 –96 , 99 –100 , 140
Comte, Auguste
15 , 237
Comunismo russo (Spirito)
133 , 144
confession
religious vs. psychoanalytic
227
Confucianism
146 , 150
Congress of Ferrara
60 , 70 , 69 , 130
conscience
resides in truth
222
consciousness
223 , 228
consensus
among scientists
120 , 159 , 160 , 162 , 164
as inspiring principle of social life
183
as proof of knowledge
159
based on the idea of hypothesis
167
dissent in science leads to
180
metaphysics rooted in scientists’ consensus
183
Consiglio Nazionale delle Corporazioni (National Council of Corporations)
77
contrition
223
conviviality
133 , 135
corporation
national
92
corporativism
66 –103 95
anti-liberal
89
as absolute liberalism
81 , 85
as absolute socialism
81 , 85
hierarchical communism in
91
hierarchy inherent in an integral
97
in international field
92
limiting factors
100
over-schematization of
76
progressive inclusion of corporations
93
realization of liberalism and socialism
71
role of c. as conciliator
77
vs. nationalism
98
vis-à-vis the problem of liberalism
88
credit system
78
crime
55
causes of
56
classical vs. positivist view of
55
criminal law
15 , 53 , 55
anthropology and
15
classical school of
54 –57
positive school of
54 –57
sociology and
15
Critica dell’economia liberale (Spirito)
22
Critica dell’uomo europeo (Spirito)
195
Croce, Benedetto
xii , xvi , xvii , 9 , 20 , 29 , 32 , 34 , 38 , 67 , 106 , 247 , 248
culture
134
c. diversity
199
c. elite
198
c. lacking consciousness of humanity
200
cosmopolitan European
197
duty to enrich
200
East–West differences of
153
Italian
64
leveled to maximum common denominator
200
Dall’attualismo al problematicismo
10 , 66 , 104 , 123 , 126 , 155 , 217
Dal mito alla scienza (Spirito)
12 , 165 , 166 , 168 , 204 , 207
Da Vinci Leonardo
157
Del Noce, Augusto
4
democracy
182 –191
antifascism and
182
class struggle and
186
vs. planned economy
187
debtors
individual vs. national
92
delinquency
physical abnormality as source of
224
democracy
182
as antifascism
182
as myth
182
based on majority rule
183 –186
collapse of democratic institutions
189
in d. there is dualism between rich and poor
190
made up of workers
183
De Sanctis, Francesco
20
Dessì, Giovanni
4 , 7
De Vecchi, Cesare M.
60 , 70 , 248
Dialectic of Enlightenment (Horkheimer/Adorno)
7
dialecticism
problematic vs. metaphysical
117 , 119
dialogue
135 –136
at base of Russian personality
135
discourse
107
Di Stefano Lino
6 , 33
diversity
relativism discovered in
194
dogmatism
118
doubt
107 –108 , 112 , 115
Cartesian
13
economic freedom
72
economic life
individualistic vs. collectivistic
73
economic theories
ophelimity
15
socialist
72
economics
71 –72 , 103
conflicting e. principles
74
e. principles
66
liberal
92
liberal e. literature
86
private enterprise interpretation of
95
economy
96
corporative
97 –101
dualistic system of programmed national and international liberal
99
e. crises
100
individualistic
72 –73 , 91
individualistic vs. corporative
76
national economy
72 , 97 –98
need for integration of national and international
99
programmed
93 –103 , 187 –188
synthetic
74
understood in a spiritual sense
102
education
70 , 188 , 196 , 198 , 201
combined with technical training
201
backbone of bourgeoisie
192
Chinese
149
European
196 –197
in Gentile’s philosophy
45
Spirito’s education rooted in positivist
235
elites
198 , 200
empiricism
158
in Chinese life
152
emulation
140
Engels, Friedrich
149
Enlightenment
67 , 141 , 149 , 151 , 204
enterprise
individual
87
entrepreneurs
76 , 78
Eraclitus
27
Estate, separation between Third and Fourth
144
Eucharist
223
Europe
5 , 7 , 80 , 104 , 145 , 208 , 212 , 213 , 231
concept of
195 –197
Eurocommunism
213
Germanic component of
197
European cultures
rooted in Greek and Roman civilization
145
experience
cross-cultural common
194
Fabro, Cornelio
4
factory, Soviet
138 –139 , 152
focal point of workers’ lives
137
management and workers’ common goals
140
family
139 , 151
Chinese
148
educates for society
137
fascism/fascist
59 , 61 , 63 , 65 , 76 , 80 , 92
as solution to antinomies
72
cleansing of fiancheggiatori
62
construed as revolution
71
corporative phase of
89
Fascist Party
59 , 61 –62 , 70
fascist revolution
71 –72 , 80 , 90
fight against liberalism
62
Italian f. newspapers
63
Oct. 1922–Jan. 1925
62
opposition from within f.
63
pre-corporative phase of
88
revolutionary agenda of
62
revolutionary spirit of
61
similarity to socialists and Bolsheviks
79
true value of f. movement
62
vision of future of
62
Ferri, Enrico
15
fiancheggiatori
62
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
36
firms
characteristics by size
74 –75
relationship with State
79
relationship with workers
79
first principle
57
Foucault, Michel
8
free enterprise
dualistic system of State intervention and
99
free market
96
freedom
82 , 84 , 87
as arbitrariness
85
enhanced by unification with others
84
Freemasonry, Italian
64
French Revolution
71 , 186
Frosini, Vittorio
7
Galbraith, John Kenneth
210
Gentile, Giovanni
xi , xii , xiii , xvi , 1 , 2 , 3 , 8 , 9 , 20 , 23 , 29 –52 , 106 , 107 , 248
Croce and
2 , 29 –34
Spirito and
2 , 31 –34
G’s actual idealism
2 , 34 –47 , 60 , 117
G’s anti-positivism
29 , 229 –235
G’s school reform
59
Germany
communist parties in
142
Gioberti, Vincenzo
34 , 248
Giovanni Gentile (Spirito)
34
Giovanni Gentile e l’attualismo (Di Stefano)
33
God
222
Christian believe in the Kingdom of
200
as object
121
before the subject
20
existence of
112
knowledge is essence of
111
happiness
111 , 121
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
20 , 35 , 36 , 132 , 149 –150 , 161
tried to achieve a systematic deduction of categories
38
Hegelianism
21 , 35 , 149
neo
29
Heidegger, Martin
xiii , 6 , 7 , 173
Heraclitus
27 , 35
heredity
227
historian
Spirito as historian
10 , 241
historicism
72 , 103 , 232
historicistic spirit
80
history
55
common h. of Europe and Mediterranean countries
196
h. compromise
215 –216
nullification of individual in
57
Horkheimer, Max
7
humanism
151 , 195 , 198
Chinese
150 , 151 –153
Chinese vs. Western
150
foundation of new
193 –195
Gentile’s
193 , 234
Italian
117 , 151 , 192 –193
originated in Mediterranean area
196
science and technology create a new
164 , 174
scientific knowledge substituted for
152
Spirito formulates a new
133
humanity
ethical worthiness of
57
potential of
223
social nature of
83
superior h. represented by science
195
transition from metaphysical to scientific conception of
224
hypercriticism
anarchic
141
of modern world
117
hypothetism
theory of
165 –173
idealism
37 , 38 , 57 , 118 , 161 , 221 , 223 , 238
actual i.
3 , 17 , 19 , 23 , 31 , 32 , 37 –52 , 57 , 60 , 104 , 105 , 107 , 118 , 132 , 161 , 232 , 233 , 235 , 240 , 244
constructive actual i.
3 , 33 , 115
Epicurean
147
Gentile’s new idealism
130
Hegelian
157
Italian
20
neo-idealism
2 , 16 , 29 , 106 , 107
neo-i. was antiscientific in both Gentile’s and Croce’s philosophy
231
post-Cartesian
157
post-Hegelian
141 , 158
Spirito’s embracing of actual idealism
31 –34
identification of
law and freedom
90
philosophy and reality
38
science and philosophy
67 , 68 , 165 , 167 , 206
the concept of life with a conscious life
51
identity of
philosophy and history
117
philosophy and history of philosophy
48 , 49
philosophy and life
33 , 48 , 49
science and philosophy
2 , 33 , 34 , 156 , 160
I fondamenti dell’economia corporativa (Spirito)
22
Il comunismo (Spirito)
209
Il corporativismo (Spirito)
22
Il nuovo diritto penale (Spirito)
16
Il nuovo idealismo italiano (Spirito)
20
Il positivismo non è ancora finito (Spirito)
229
Il pragmatismo nella filosofia contemporanea (Spirito)
23
Il problema della scienza (Spirito)
156
Il significato del nuovo umanesimo (Spirito)
193
incontrovertibility
13 , 14 –15 , 17
individual
i.’s reason d’être
88 , 90
is absolute in liberalism
89
relationship of i. with State
91
subordination of the i. to the State
89
modified
73
not consideration in China
150
See also liberalism
81
sterility of pure
84
individuality
57
Individuo e stato nell’economia corporativa (Spirito)
71
Individuo e Stato nella concezione corporativa (Spirito)
69
industrialization
in China
147
industry, Italian
64
inheritance laws
85
Inizio di una nuova epoca (Spirito)
124 , 126 , 153 , 159 , 160 , 165
innovation
limits on
101
intellectualism
anti-
118
opposite of pragmatism
25
interest
individual
97
interests
conflicting
75 –76 , 79
investigation
110
pure
115
Italy
54 , 68 , 110 , 117 , 142 , 177 , 187 , 191 , 197 , 210
communist influence in
142
Fascism in
61 –65
Italian culture
231
problems in
64
James, Henry
22 , 23
Judgement
Christian view of
123
nonjudgment
123
justice
Catholic Church interpretation of social
141
Kant, Immanuel
20 , 24 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 57 , 117 , 123 , 125 , 132 , 152 , 161 , 166 , 190 , 206 , 207
knowledge
14 , 15 , 23 , 25 , 26 , 32 , 40 , 42 , 50 , 54 , 68 , 78 , 86
actual idealism remained within scientific
17
consensus as a form of
159
in China K. is seen as instrument to reach other goals
153
in St. Augustine Christian k. not reconcilable with science
158
k. of history coincides with k. of the history of philosophy
17
not-Knowing
121
philosophy and science do not constitute a single form of
37
program based on synthetic
219
scientific k.
155 –181
scientific k. as exaltation of humanism
152
unification of
160
labor
75 –76 , 78 –79 , 100
Marxist reduction of all work to manual
96
La critica dell’economia liberale (Spirito)
67
La fine del comunismo (Spirito)
1 , 210 , 211 , 214
La riforma della dialettica Hegeliana (Gentile)
39
La vita come amore. Tramonto della civiltàcristiana (Spirito)
4 , 113 , 121 , 125 , 131
La vita come arte (Spirito)
113 , 115 , 124
La vita come ricerca (Spirito)
1 , 2 , 12 , 32 , 34 , 60 104 , 105 , 107 , 113 , 123 , 156
L’avvenire della scienza (Spirito)
language
of bourgeoisie vs. proletariat
200
written language /detached from daily
198
Latin-America
196
law
criminal
15 , 53 , 55 –56
L’economia programmatica (Spirito)
93 –94
left-wing parties
209
Leninism
as Marxism L.
136 , 145 , 149
liberalism
81 , 84 –85 , 87 –92 , 94 –95 , 97 –98 , 103 92
absolute
81 , 85
abstract sense of
85
anti-
81
crisis in l. regime
96
diversity stressed by
97
fascism vs.
62
fight against State in
87
individual is absolute in
89
individualistic
84 , 93
international ideology of
92
marriage of socialism and
88
needs of individual are absolute
89
negation of State by
84
opposition to autocratic State
82
political struggle against
63
synonym for individualism
81
liberty
83 , 222
life
antinomic dramatic form of
117 , 119
as an art
122
dialectical process of
119
mediated and immediate
114 –115
life, mystery of
105 , 110
logos
27
abstract
33 , 45
abstract l. and concrete
43 –44
God as
111
Lombroso, Cesare
224 –225 , 236 , 249 , 251
Lo sviluppo del fascismo (Spirito)
61 , 182
love
109 , 112 , 122 –123 , 130 , 147
as nonjudgment
123
Christian and Marxist concept of
122
to overcome problematicism
120
Lyotard, François
8
Machiavelli, Niccolò
161
effectual reality of
161
Machiavellian reality in Stalin
135
management
collective/state
72
Manifesto
of Anti-Fascist Intellectuals
248
of Anti-positivism
230 , 231
of Fascist Intellectuals
31 , 248
The Communist
213
March on Rome
16 , 61 , 63 , 232
Marcuse, Herbert
7
Marxism
130 –131 , 141 –142 , 145 –146 , 149 , 153 , 213 –215
as metaphysics of revolution
141
in China
150
inability to overcome bourgeois mentality
142
Judeo-Christian roots
149
Russian
150
Marxism-Leninism
136 , 145 , 149
foundation of Chinese education
149
Matteotti, Giacomo
59
meaning
world m. found in life
27
Mediterranean countries
196
melancholy
121
Memorie di un incosciente (Spirito)
1 , 11 , 53 , 70 , 130 , 239 , 243
Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (Spirito)
130
mercantilism
historical anachronism of
95
metaphysics
156 –164 , 166 –169 , 172
of science vs. Christian
158
of the ‘I’
223
scientific
167
Mittel Europe
197
Mussolini, Benito
3 , 59 , 60 , 70 , 71 , 215 , 249
myth
European
197
Nation
71 , 76 , 80 , 86 –87 , 89 , 91 , 97 –98 , 100
conditions for major economic and spiritual development of
93
economic forces of
98
economic unity of
97
hierarchy of
97
meaning of N. for individual
92
organic system of the economy of
99
State’s abstract knowledge of
86
unable to achieve economic unity in
97
National Council of Corporations
77 –78 , 89
National Government
61
nationalism
88 , 92 , 98
nature
human beings contraposed to
57
needs, human
26
Nixon, Richard M.
214
Note sul pensiero di Giovanni Gentile (Spirito)
4
Nuovi studi di diritto, di economia e politica
16 , 17 , 19 , 32 , 33 , 55 , 60 , 68 , 130 , 244
Nuovo umanesimo (Spirito)
174 , 192
characteristic of thinking
107
objects
121
omnicentrism
126 , 168
One
multiplicity and
35
organism
logical structure of
109
otherness
proletarian exclusion of
142
Ottolenghi, Salvatore
16
ownership
70 –72 , 75 , 85
corporative
77 –78
private
72
Pantaleoni, Maffeo
15 , 25 , 66 , 68 , 69 , 249
paralogisms
95
Parmenides
27 , 35
pedagogy
in Gentile’s philosophy
45
penal law, Italian
54
penitence
223
personality
87 –88 , 91 , 93 , 102
philosophers
Greek and Christian
159
philosophy
anti-intellectualistic
26
demand for absolute in problems
155 , 157
dualism between science and
157
etymological meaning of
159
historiographical criterion of
119
history of
26
intellectualism in
26
life outside sphere of
115
plan
67 , 137 , 138 , 140 , 148
in the commune in China
148
in the Soviet Union
218 –219
workers attached to the plan
139
Plato
35
Elaboration of Platonic system
25
Platonism
26 , 35
Poincaré, Julius Henry
22
politics
militant
134
Popper, Karl
7
positivism
2 , 10 , 18 –21 , 31 , 55 , 156 –157 , 161 , 229 –240
challenged by idealism
20
metaphysics of
20
reaction to
157
realism and
20
transition to idealism from
20
pragmatism
22 , 27
as abstract philosophical position
26
as a contradiction of itself
27
as anti-intellectualism
22 , 24 , 25 , 26
ends at becoming
27
self-contradiction in
27
skepticism and
27
Pravda (truth)
136
private enterprise
72 , 79 , 84 –85 , 88 , 95 , 102
vs. corporativism
77
problematicism
1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 10 , 19 , 34 , 55 , 106 , 117 , 119 –120 , 124 , 125 , 131 , 132 , 136 , 155 , 165 , 206 , 217 , 219 , 220 , 221 , 238 , 144
as modern criticism
118
as neither idealism nor positivism but attitude of doubting and of waiting
238
aspects of problematicism
116
birth of
104 –107
confronted by argument used against skepticism
118
love to overcome problematicism
120
Marxism as positive negation of
130
science and
104 , 156
science overcoming
159
Spirito and
104 –107 , 113 –115 , 116 –117 , 120 –121 , 123 –126 , 238
production
194
Profili di pensatori contemporanei (Di Stefano)
6
program
67 , 76 , 78 , 88 , 200 , 217 , 219
and corporativism
93 –101
flexibility in
101
in Russia
138 –141
organizing a state-run economy on
93
progress
82 , 108
as positive universal cultural manifestation of
193
technological
178 , 193
USSR made material progress
210
proletarian consciousness
210
proletariat
131 , 141 , 144 , 146 142
anti-p. spirit
209
attempts to claim rights of bourgeoisie
199
benefited from bourgeoisie
142
Italian
142
property
rights to personal
142
Protagoras
27
Protestant Reformation
158
psychoanalysis
226
impeded by hereditary factors
227
public and private sectors, conflict between
79
punishment
55
redemptive element in p.
54
rationality
affirmation of existence of God and
109
realism
20
idealism vs.
21
reality
harmony of
121
immanence of
20
relativism
conception of relativism within problematicism
124 –161
omnicentrism and
125 , 128 , 129
science and
177 , 194
today’s relativism
126
Renaissance
35 , 36 , 117 , 124 , 151 , 181 , 196
responsibility
54 –55 , 206 , 222 –223 , 226
revolution
Chinese
145 –150
negative, abstract r. stage
82
Russian
138 , 146 –147 , 208
scientific
226 , 228
Soviet
134
rhetoric
Italian r.
63
Roman Law
151
Rome
fascist March on
61 , 63 , 232 , 248 , 250
Russia
five-year plan
132 –133 , 138 –139 , 143 –146
ideology of
145
R.’s spiritual reality
133
Salandra, Antonio
62
Scandinavian countries
communist parties in
142
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph
36
Schiller, Ferdinando C.S
22
science
193 , 195
antiscience and
203 –207 , 211
as incontrovertible truth
160
containing a metaphysics and morality
163 –164
determining value of
194
dubious or unfounded s. conclusions
156
faith in science
156
hypostasis of
15
identity of philosophy and
17
metaphysics and
153 –173
philosophy and
15 –16 , 156 , 160
religion and philosophy alongside
152
metaphysics of science and t.
198
science and t. started the process of industrialization in China 153
s. and t. created a new vision of space and time
158
s. and t. are creating unity and consensus everywhere
195
s. and t. don’t represent an instrumental value
194
scientific certainties and philosophical certainties
17
technology and
173 –181 , 183
transformative effects of
194
Scienza e filosofia (Spirito)
21 , 33 , 47 , 68 , 104 , 107
self
centrality of
121
Western exaltation of
151
self-awareness
30 , 45 , 50 , 58 , 114 , 115 , 116 , 124 , 206 , 223 –226 , 228 , 237 , 244 , 245
analysis leading from awareness to
115
in ancient, medieval, and modern thought
222
self-criticism
209
Severino, Emanuele
xiv , 173 , 250
shareholders
74 –75 , 77
Significato del nostro tempo (Spirito)
4
skepticism
21 , 49 , 81 , 129 , 137
influenced bourgeoisie
144
problematicism vs.
118
s. vs. absolute
129
s. vs. sure cultural beliefs
194
social climbing, Italian
65
social groups
on level between individual and State
90
abstract s. of State
87
abstract statist demands of
92
anti-
81
attempt to minimize the dualism and relative transcendence of State
94
called corporativism
88
expectation of justice from State by
87
false liberal interpretation of
85
State above individual in
85
socialists
79
society
83 , 134 , 136 , 144 , 152
bourgeois
139
economic and non-economic aspects of
139
formed within family
137
private-public sector dualism
139
socio-democratic aspirations
215
sociologism
72
sociology
21 , 56 –57 , 72
criminal
15 , 18 , 24 , 54 , 235 , 236
history vs.
57
Comte’s
237
Socrates
222 , 224
Sommario di pedagogia (Gentile)
39
soul
224
soul-body relationship
225
Soviet society
objective truth in
136
Soviet Union
133 , 137 –139 , 144 , 146 –147 , 153
opportunity for personal betterment in
139
transformation after revolution
138
Spaventa, Bertrando
20 , 35 , 36
Spengler, Oswald
8
Spiazzi, Raimondo
4
Spinoza, Baruch
35 , 36
Spirit/spirit
29 –30 , 106 , 109 –110 , 112 , 115 , 118
Absolute S.
11 , 30
nature one with
57
Spirito, Ugo
1 –9 , 10 –11 , 18 –19 , 22 , 31 –34 , 53 –55 , 59 –61 , 66 , 69 –71 , 104 –107 , 116 –117 , 120 –121 , 123 –126 , 155 –156 , 159 –160 , 165 –168 , 173 –174 , 182 –183 , 192 –193 , 203 –206 , 221 , 229 , 235 –237 , 239 –240
actual idealism and
31 –34
Chinese trip of
144 –151
communism and
60 , 210 , 240
Gentile and
31 –34
positivism and
2 , 10 –17 , 18 –19 , 229 –238 , 244
Professor of Corporative Studies at the Scuola Normale (Pisa)
70
Soviet Union travels of
133 –144
the historian
241
spiritual life
151
Stalin, Joseph
133 , 135 , 149
Russian reaction to
135
Starace, Achille
60 , 250
State
coordination-subordination relationship with the other groups
91
immanentistic sense of the reality of
87
management of the economy
86
protective intervention of
96
relationship of s. to nation
86
S. employees’ interest in S. goods
139
solidarity goal of
89
universality of
88
stoicism
27 , 28 , 35
Storia del diritto penale italiano (Spirito)
16 , 22 , 54 , 55 , 230 , 236 , 237
Storia della mia ricerca (Spirito)
1 , 10 , 11 , 104 , 165 , 203 , 206 , 220 , 232
as autobiographical book
12 –13
structures
urban and architectural
194
subconscious
226 , 228
subjects
121
Switzerland
communist parties in
142
Taoism
146
technology
7 , 138 , 152 , 139 , 152 , 164 , 166 , 173 , 174 , 175 , 177 , 178 , 183 , 192 , 193 , 194 , 199 , 212
determining value of
194
metaphysics of science and t.
198
science and t. started the process of industrialization in China
153
s. and t. created a new vision of space and time
158
s. and t. are creating unity and consensus everywhere
195
s. and t. don’t represent an instrumental value
194
transformative effects of
194
Teoria generale dello spirito come atto puro (Gentile)
41
The Decline of the West (Spengler)
8
thinking in act
2 , 44
thought
continuity of
20
critical
14
development of
26
historical development of
108
modern thought
116 , 117 , 118 , 160 , 161 , 204 , 222 , 223
scientific ideal of modern
118
truth and
26
Togliatti, Palmiro
130 , 214 , 215 , 250
trade unionism
76 –77 , 87
Tramonto del comunismo (Spirito)
211
transcendence
attempts to free from
20
theistic
20
transportation
194
trust (economic form)
84
truth
42 , 105 , 115 , 126 , 149 , 159 , 171 , 180 , 194 , 206
absolute
161 , 166 , 170 , 243
common-sense t. in positivism
18
faith in truth
189
idealism and t. becomes one and the same
4
incontrovertible truth
4 , 10
Marxism-Leninism based on objective
136 , 145
objective
136 , 149
philosophical t. is not the
161
possession of
4 , 32 , 33 , 167 , 168 , 205
scientific
161 , 162 , 166 , 169 , 170 , 191
search for truth
195 , 229
spirit as
30
Russian love for
135 –136
subjective t. in pragmatism
24 –26
t. in conscience
222
Ugo Spirito. La ricerca dell’incontrovertibile (Cavallera)
8
Ugo Spirito. Filosofia e rivoluzione (Dessì)
4 , 7
unilateral criteria
information or action based on
134
United States
intrinsically tied to England
196
unity (unification)
194
in diversity
10
philosophy as absolute unity of all aspect of reality
114
psychophysical
226
Uscatescu, George
6 , 7
USSR
5 , 69 , 131 , 209 , 210
Influence on China
149
value
109 , 112
values
traditional v. contraposed to scientific metaphysics
167
Varisco, Bernardino
22
Vico, Giambattista
34 , 161 , 250 , 251
Vilella, Giuseppe
220 , 224 , 249 , 251
Vilfredo Pareto (Spirito)
1 , 67
Volpicelli, Arnaldo
69 , 251
Western World
153 , 187 , 193 , 194
and Russia
133 –144
workers
76 , 78 –79 , 87 , 99 –100
conflicts between owners and
79
not citizens with which State identifies
99
viewed as equivalent to raw material
99
working class
organized against ruling class
85
World War i
61 , 62 , 64 , 65 , 197
Italy’s entry into
62
post-wwi anarchy
64
World War ii
7 , 62 , 67 , 105 , 132 , 182 , 214
Zedong, Mao
131 , 132 , 149 , 154