Italian Philosophy in its relation to European philosophy

Abstract

This is a Russian translation of the first and the third lectures from Spaventa's famous Introductory Course in Philosophy delivered at the University of Naples in 1861. Spaventa sets himself the goal of transcending the prejudice dominant in contemporary Italian philosophical discourse, in order to demonstrate that Italian and European speculative thought share a common character and follow the same development path. To prove his thesis, the author singles out the main propositions of Renaissance philosophy and illustrates them by expounding the ideas of the more prominent thinkers of that period.