Cesare Enrico Aroldi

q:it:Cesare Enrico Aroldi (1875 – 1943?) was an Italian writer. Stregoneria e occultismo Cesare E. Aroldi, Stregoneria e occultismo, Società Editrice Sonzogno, Milano, 1904 (in Italian). There have been various scientific attempts to explain the wonders of the divining rod. In his “'Phisique occulte ou traité de la baquette divinatoire”', Vallemont hypothesises that metals, water and criminals emit particles which, when they come into contact with the rod, cause it to move. Another, Tounevel, replaces the corpuscles with electric effluvia; but one might spontaneously object: why then do the movements of the rod not occur in the hands of “'any person”'? (pp. 21-22) What painter could portray all the bizarre transformations of the Devil? It is not true that he always appeared as ugly as certain Catholic authors depict him. Satan, on the contrary, can also take on the most seductive forms when necessary: that of a knight, a woman, even... would you believe it? a monk and a saint. One night, he leaves the chamber of Saint Cunegonda the queen dressed as a knight; surprised, the unhappy sovereign is subjected to the trial by fire... for adultery... (chap. VII, p. 46) In truth, ascetic concentration is not the best condition for victory against the devil. This is suggested by the case of the nun mentioned by St. Gregory the Great, who... swallowed the devil, believing she was eating a lettuce leaf... which the cunning tempter had disguised himself as. (chap. VII, p. 46) Leaving aside the Holy Fathers, according to whom Satan can know the future, how can we not admire the King of Hell when, for example, we read that he was always a successful seducer of women's hearts? In 1599, a certain Antide Collas was burned “because her sexual conformation presented something phenomenal that was believed to be explained by the hypothesis of an infamous deal with Satan”. (chap. VII, p. 47) Incipit of some works Dottrine positiviste What is metaphysics? Let us explain clearly: if by metaphysics, in the broadest sense of the word, we mean “the general theory of the universe”, that theory which, in other words, embraces and explains all its manifestations, then positivism, which proclaims itself to be the negator and destroyer of metaphysics, has itself created a complete and proper metaphysics. Il materialismo Materialism is not a new doctrine. Apart from the schools of antiquity, no one is unaware of the materialistic attitude of many Renaissance thinkers. The philosophical literature that preceded and prepared the French Revolution was, so to speak, imbued with materialist philosophy: suffice it to mention the famous “System of Nature”, which was the standard work in the 18th century, and the works, not yet entirely outdated, of the famous Baron Holbach. Il razionalismo Modern philosophy, which finds its historical premise in Renaissance Humanism, is immediately recognisable by certain characteristics that are entirely unique to it. What are these characteristics? The question is not idle, since we must outline the general principles of a system – Rationalism – which represents both the culmination and the necessary outcome of modern philosophy, and we therefore need to know and appreciate them. L'essenza dell'anarchismo In the common opinion, accepted by most without question, as current currency, the term anarchist is usually applied to those who, professing to be enemies of the current economic and political order, dream of and, as far as they can, strive with others towards the revolutionary goal of overthrowing it through violence, aspiring as the ultimate ideal, as the maximum programme, so to speak, of his revolutionary action, to a new society based on the perfect equality of all its members, and what is most characteristic, a society without government, without state, without laws, without courts, without any of those officially recognised institutions (such as, for example, property, marriage, the army, etc.), which, in various forms, have always been maintained among all peoples, in all systems and in all times. L'origine dell'uomo secondo la teoria dell'evoluzione In order to fully understand the true meaning and intrinsic value of Darwin's theory of the origin of man, it is first necessary to consider that this theory is attached to, or grafted onto, the great tree of “biological transformation”, that is to say, the theory of the transformation of species. Bibliography Cesare E. Aroldi, Dottrine positiviste, Sonzogno, [1903?]. C. E. Aroldi, Il materialismo, Sonzogno. C. E. Aroldi, Il razionalismo, Sonzogno. Cesare Enrico Aroldi, L'origine dell'uomo secondo la teoria dell'evoluzione, Sonzogno, 1904. Cesare E. Aroldi, La negazione della proprietà e della società borghese in Pierre J. Proudhon e Pietro Kropotkin, La fiaccola, 1970. Cesare E. Aroldi, La negazione di Dio e dello Stato in Max Stirner e Michele Bakunin, La fiaccola, 1966. Cesare E. Aroldi, Stregoneria e occultismo, Società Editrice Sonzogno, Milano, 1904. Category:1875 births Category:1943 deaths Category:Authors from Italy