Mario Vegetti (4 January 1937 – 11 March 2018) was an Italian

historian of philosophy The history of philosophy is the systematic study of the development of Philosophy, philosophical thought. It focuses on philosophy as rational inquiry based on argumentation, but some theorists also include myth, Religion, religious traditions ...

Education

Mario Vegetti was born in Milan in 1937. He graduated with a thesis on

Thucydides Thucydides ( ; ; BC) was an Classical Athens, Athenian historian and general. His ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts Peloponnesian War, the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been d ...

historiography Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline. By extension, the term ":wikt:historiography, historiography" is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiog ...

at the

University of Pavia The University of Pavia (, UNIPV or ''Università di Pavia''; ) is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. There was evidence of teaching as early as 1361, making it one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest un ...

, as a student at

Collegio Ghislieri The Ghislieri College (Italian: ''Collegio Ghislieri''), founded in 1567 by Pope Pius V, is the second-oldest college in Pavia and co-founder of the IUSS in Pavia as well. History Collegio Ghislieri is a 450-year-old Italian institution c ...

. He was full professor of the history of ancient philosophy at the University of Pavia and directed the Department of Philosophy of the same university. He was professor at

Scuola Superiore Studi Pavia IUSS The Scuola Superiore IUSS or the "Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori" of Pavia (Eng. ''IUSS - School for Advanced Studies'') is a higher learning institute located in Pavia, Italy. The Scuola Superiore IUSS was founded in 1997. It was c ...

. He was a member of the International Collegium Politicum, of the Accademia napoletana di scienze morali, and of the Istituto Lombardo-Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.

Research interests

He translated and wrote a commentary of many of Hippocrates', Aristoteles', and Galen's writings. Among Vegetti's are '' Il coltello e lo stilo'' (1996), ''Tra Edipo e Euclide'' (1983), ''L'etica degli antichi'' (1996), ''Guida alla lettura della 'Repubblica' di Platone'' (1999), ''Quindici lezioni su Platone'' (2003). Vegetti's research work covered several fields of history of ancient thought such as: ethics, politics, anthropology, history of medicine and science, and philosophical historiography. Some of his papers are devoted to topics concerning the forms of subjectivity, anthropological theories, and the formation of the concept of cause, other studies deal with

Plato Plato ( ; Greek language, Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical Greece, Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the writte ...

Aristotle Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, a ...

Stoicism Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in ancient Greece and Rome. The Stoics believed that the universe operated according to reason, ''i.e.'' by a God which is immersed in nature itself. Of all the schools of ancient ...

Hellenistic Medicine Ancient Greek medicine was a compilation of theories and practices that were constantly expanding through new ideologies and trials. The Greek term for medicine was ''iatrikē'' (). Many components were considered in ancient Greek medicine, inter ...

, and

Galen Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (; September 129 – AD), often Anglicization, anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Ancient Rome, Roman and Greeks, Greek physician, surgeon, and Philosophy, philosopher. Considered to be one o ...

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L'etica e la filosofia anticaLa retorica e la persuasioneLa medicina greca. Aristotele. I pitagorici. Socrate.L'etica in Platone e Aristotele
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vegetti, Mario 1937 births 2018 deaths 20th-century Italian philosophers 21st-century Italian philosophers People from Milan Italian scholars of ancient Greek philosophy Commentators on Aristotle