Enrico Berti (3 November 1935 – 5 January 2022) was an Italian philosopher. He was professor emeritus of philosophy at the

University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from ...

Biography

Born in

Valeggio sul Mincio Valeggio sul Mincio is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about west of Venice and about southwest of Verona. It is crossed by the Mincio river. The economy is mostly based on agricult ...

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, Berti graduated in philosophy in 1957 at the

, and after a few years teaching at the

University of Perugia University of Perugia ( Italian ''Università degli Studi di Perugia'') is a public-owned university based in Perugia, Italy. It was founded in 1308, as attested by the Bull issued by Pope Clement V certifying the birth of the Studium Generale. ...

he was professor in his alma mater for almost forty years. His major interest was

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical Greece, Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatet ...

, to whom he dedicated many works, and of whom he made his own translation of the ''

Metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

'', published in 2017. During his life Berti has received numerous honors, including the title of Academician of

Lincei The Accademia dei Lincei (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed", but anglicised as the Lincean Academy) is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rom ...

and the appointment of Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic. His ''Storia della filosofia. Dall’antichità a oggi'' ("History of Philosophy. From antiquity to today") is used as the manual of philosophy in many Italian schools and universities. Berti died on 5 January 2022, at the age of 86.

Publications

* ''L'interpretazione neoumanistica della filosofia presocratica'', Padova, 1959. * ''La filosofia del primo Aristotele'', Padova, Cedam, 1962; 2ª ed., Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 1997. * ''Il "De republica" di Cicerone e il pensiero politico classico'', Padova, Cedam, 1963. * ''L'unità del sapere in Aristotele'', Padova, Cedam, 1965. * ''La contraddizione'', 1967. * ''Studi sulla struttura logica del discorso scientifico'', 1968. * ''Studi aristotelici'', L'Aquila, Japadre, 1975 (nuova edizione, 2012). * ''Aristotele. Dalla dialettica alla filosofia prima'', Padova, Cedam, 1977. * ''Ragione scientifica e ragione filosofica nel pensiero moderno'', Roma, La Goliardica, 1977. * ''Profilo di Aristotele'', Roma, Studium, 1979. * ''Il bene'', Brescia, La Scuola, 1983. * ''Le vie della ragione'', Bologna, Il Mulino, 1987. * ''Contraddizione e dialettica negli antichi e nei moderni'', Palermo, L'Epos, 1987 (nuova edizione, 2015). * ''Le ragioni di Aristotele'', Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1989. * ''Storia della filosofia. Dall'antichità a oggi'' (with Franco Volpi), Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1991. * ''Aristotele nel Novecento'', Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1992. * ''Introduzione alla metafisica'', Torino, UTET, 1993. * ''Il pensiero politico di Aristotele'', Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997. * (curatore, con Cristina Rossitto)

Aristotele Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

e altri autori, ''Divisioni'', con testo greco a fronte, coll. Il pensiero occidentale, 2005. * ''In principio era la meraviglia. Le grandi questioni della filosofia antica'', Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007. * ''Dialectique, physique et métaphysique. Études sur Aristote'', Peeters, 2008. * ''Il libro primo della «Metafisica»'' (con Cristina Rossitto), traduzione di Antonio Russo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008. * ''Sumphilosophein. La vita nell'Accademia di Platone'', Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010. * ''Nuovi studi aristotelici'', 4 voll., Brescia, Morcelliana, 2004-2010. * ''Invito alla filosofia'', Brescia, La Scuola, 2011. * ''La ricerca della verità in filosofia'', Roma, Studium, 2014. * ''Aristotelismo'', Bologna, il Mulino, 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Berti, Enrico 1935 births 2022 deaths Italian philosophers University of Padua alumni Academic staff of the University of Padua Academic staff of the University of Perugia People from the Province of Verona Italian historians of philosophy Historians of philosophy Commentators on Aristotle