Luigi Ferri Italian

Italy

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 philosopher, was born at Bologna

Bologna

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His education was obtained mainly at the École Normale Supérieure

École Normale Supérieure

The École normale supérieure is one of the most prestigious French grandes écoles...

 in Paris

Paris

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, where his father, a painter and architect, was engaged in the construction of the Théâtre Italien. From his twenty-fifth year he began to lecture in the colleges of Evreux

Évreux

Évreux is a commune in the Eure department, of which it is the capital, in Haute Normandie in northern France.-History:In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century CE, was named Mediolanum Aulercorum, "the central town of the Aulerci", the Gallic tribe then inhabiting the area...

, Dieppe, Blois

Blois

Blois is the capital of Loir-et-Cher department in central France, situated on the banks of the lower river Loire between Orléans and Tours.-History:...

 and Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

. Later, he was lecturer at Annecy

Annecy

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 and Casal-Montferrat, and became head of the education department under Mamiani in 1860.

Three years later he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the Istituto di Perfezionamento at Florence

Florence

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, and, in 1871, was made professor of philosophy in the University of Rome La Sapienza

University of Rome La Sapienza

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. On the death of Mamiani in 1885 he became editor of the Filosofia delle scuole italiane, whose title he changed to Rivista italiana di filosofia. He wrote both on psychology and on metaphysics, but is known especially as a historian of philosophy.

His original work is eclectic, combining the psychology of his teachers, Jules Simon

Jules Simon

Jules François Simon was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction.-Biography:Simon was born at Lorient. His father was a linen-draper from Lorraine, who renounced Protestantism before his second marriage with a Catholic Breton. Jules Simon...

, Saisset

Émile Saisset

Émile Edmond Saisset was a French philosopher.He was born at Montpellier. He studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, and carried on the eclectic tradition of his master along with Ravaisson and Jules Simon...

 and Mamiani, with the idealism of Rosmini

Antonio Rosmini-Serbati

Blessed Antonio Rosmini-Serbati was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and philosopher. He founded the Rosminians, officially the Institute of Charity or Societas a charitate nuncupata.-Biography:...

 and Gioberti

Vincenzo Gioberti

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. Among his works may be mentioned:

• Studii sulla coscienza
• Il Fenomeno nelle sue relazioni con la sensazione
• Della idea del vera
• Della filosofia del diritto presso Aristotile (1885)
• Il Genio di Aristotile
• La Psicologia di Pietro Pomponazzi (1877)
• most important, Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophie en Italie au XIX' siècle (Paris, 1869)
• La Psychologie de l'association depuis Hobbes jusqu'à nos jours

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