Ángel Cappelletti (1927– November 25, 1995) was a philosopher and university professor. He was born in

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous city in the country, and is also the most po ...

. He studied philosophy at the

Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires ( es, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA) is a public university, public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Established in 1821, it is the premier institution of higher learning in the country and one o ...

where he also received his PhD in 1954. He moved to Venezuela in 1968 and began teaching at the Simon Bolivar University until his retirement in 1994, when he returned to Rosario. During his career he translated works from Greek and Latin and composed numerous works on ancient philosophy as well as on the subjects as

positivism Positivism is an empiricist philosophical theory that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive—meaning ''a posteriori'' facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience.John J. Macionis, Linda M. ...

and anarchism in Latin America.

Works

* Los fragmentos de Heráclito (1962) * Utopías Antiguas y modernas (1966) * El socialismo utópico (Rosario, 1968) * La filosofía de Heráclito de Efeso (1970) * Inicios de la filosofía griega (1972) * Cuatro filósofos de la Alta Edad Media (1972, 1993) * Introducción a Séneca (1973) * Introducción a Condillac (1974) * Los fragmentos de Diógenes de Apolonia (1975) * La teoría aristotélica de la visión (1977) * Ciencia jónica y pitagórica (1980) * Protágoras: naturaleza y cultura (1987) * Sobre tres diálogos menores de Platón (1987) * Noias de filosofía griega (1990) * La estética Griega (1991, 2000) * Positivismo y evolucionismo en Venezuela (1992) * Textos y estudios de filosofía medieval (1993) * Estado y poder político en el pensamiento moderno (1994) * Bakunin y el Socialismo Libertario (1986) * El pensamiento de Malatesta (Montevideo, 1990) * La teoría de la propiedad en Proudhon y otros momentos del pensamiento anarquista (Mexico, 1980) * El pensamiento de Kropotkin (Madrid, 1978) * Etapas del pensamiento socialista (Madrid, 1978) * Francisco Ferrer y la pedagogía libertaria (Madrid, 1980) * Prehistoria del anarquismo (Madrid, 2006) * Hechos y figuras del anarquismo hispanoamericano (Móstoles, 1991) * Utopías y antiutopías después Marx (Montevideo,1997) * El anarquismo en America Latina (Caracas, 1990) with Carlos Rama. Translations: * Séneca: De brevitae vitae (1959) * Epístolas pseudos-heraclíteas (1960) * Abelardo: Ética (1966) * Platón: Georgias (1967).

References

1927 births 1995 deaths Historians of anarchism Argentine anarchists People from Rosario, Santa Fe Academic staff of Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) Venezuelan philosophers 20th-century Argentine historians 20th-century Argentine philosophers {{Argentina-philosopher-stub