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Giovanni Gentile and the State of Contemporary Constructivism - A Study of Actual Idealist Moral Theory (Paperback)
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Giovanni Gentile and the State of Contemporary Constructivism - A Study of Actual Idealist Moral Theory (Paperback)
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Recent moral philosophers have had little to say about Giovanni
Gentile's 'actual idealism', which is widely dismissed as a kind of
obscurantist Hegelianism used to conceal flimsy justifications for
the state's total impunity over questions of morality and truth.
While Gentile is increasingly recognised as a major figure in
twentieth-century Italian culture, actual idealism itself has yet
to be given a full and impartial philosophical appraisal. Giovanni
Gentile and the State of Contemporary Constructivism represents the
first book-length treatment of actual idealist moral theory. Part I
describes and criticises Gentile's stated view, showing that it
includes several ambiguities that he exploits in order to align it
with Fascist totalitarianism. Part II develops a modified version
that is more consistent with the basic tenets of actual idealism.
It is argued that Gentile's theory is best understood as a radical
constructivist doctrine according to which all thinking has a moral
character. Rigorously conceived, it promotes not uncritical
submission to the state, but free and self-regulating thought in
the absence of a fully objective reality. Thus Gentile demonstrates
both the plausibility and the limitations of any uncompromising
form of anti-realist constructivism.
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