Francesco Acri
Francesco Acri (born March 19, 1834 in Catanzaro , † November 21, 1913 in Bologna ) was an Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy.
biography
After studying philosophy and jurisprudence, which he graduated from the University of Naples in 1857 , Acri went to the University of Berlin , where he attended the lectures of Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg from 1861 to 1863 . After his return to Italy he was initially active in the school service, from 1866 he taught history of philosophy at the University of Palermo .
In 1871 Acri was appointed to the chair in the history of philosophy at the University of Bologna , which he held until 1911.
His first major philosophical work deals with the theory of ideas . It appeared in 1870 under the title Abbozzo d'una teorica delle idee (Draft for a Theory of Ideas).
He is known to a wider audience primarily for his Italian translation of Plato's dialogues , which appeared in various separate editions between 1862 and 1889 and was reissued in three volumes from 1913–1915 under the title Dialoghi di Platone volgarizzati da Francesco Acri .
Works
- Abbozzo d'una teorica delle idee , Palermo 1870
- Della teoria dell'idee secondo Giambattista Vico , Bologna 1873
- Della relazione fra la coscienza e il corpo secondo le dottrine chiamate positive , Bologna 1880 digitized
- Videmus in aenigmate: delle idee e prima della relazione tra la coscienza e il corpo secondo i filosofi naturali , Bologna 1907
- Amore, dolore, fede , Bologna 1908
- Dialettica turbata , Bologna 1911
literature
- Rodolfo Mondolfo : Francesco Acri e il suo pensiero , Bologna 1914
- Giovanni Gentile : Le origini della filosofia contemporanea in Italia , I: I Platonici , Messina 1917, p. 366-383
- Rodolfo Mondolfo: La filosofia e l'insegnamento di Francesco Acri , in: Rivista di filosfia, XIV, 1923, p. 289-319
- Luigi Paggiaro: La filosofia di Francesco Acri , Padova 1953
- Vincenzo Cilento: Francesco Acri , in: Vichiana, 1, 1964, p. 59-72
- Michele Del Vescovo: Francesco Acri, 1861 da Catanzaro a Berlino: contributo alla biografia del filosofo , Roma 1990
- Savino Blasucci: Francesco Acri: la fortuna e l'opera , Bari 1992
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Acri, Francesco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Catanzaro |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1913 |
| Place of death | Bologna |