Simone Corleo

Simone Corleo (1823 – 1891) was an Italian politician and philosopher. Filosofia universale Simone Corleo, Filosofia universale, vol. I, Officio tipografico Lo Bianco, Palermo, 1860 Plotinus is a Platonist of broad views, who claims to collect Philosophy from all the schools friendly to tradition, and from all religions, in order to compose his own mysticism that is not at all special. The aim of his studies is communication with God: Plato's doctrine of ideas was very concerned with his plan: he therefore identified human reason with the divine, he said that the senses are means and scales for gradually ascending to the height of reason, where, having arrived, man looks with indifference at all the world's varieties, finding his mind identical with that of God. (Vol. I, chap. IV, p. 57) (Anselmo d'Aosta) [...] following St. Augustine laid the foundations of religious truths, and from there he led himself in search of true philosophers. In his Proslogion he proposed to demonstrate divine existence through the concept of God himself, who, as a most perfect being, must among other perfections have that of existence. This was the first example of supporting the demonstration with the clear and distinct idea, the first step towards psychologism: in fact Descartes, who was the first to set himself on the psychological path, uses that same argument to prove the existence of God. (Vol. I, chap. IV, p. 64) The greatest of all [the opponents of scholasticism] was Bruno, who, despising the aridity of scholastic philosophy, devoted himself to following the Eleatics and the Neoplatonists of Alexandria. – For him there exists nothing but the One, an indeterminate being, a material and formal principle of all things, the soul and intelligence of everything. His will is necessary to produce sino ab eterno, because it would be impossible to pass from a state of eternal infertility to the opposite state; and therefore the world is eternal, essentially identical with God himself, being one thing natura naturans and natura naturata. (Vol. I, chap. V, p. 73) Quotes about Both (Simone Corleo and Vincenzo Di Giovanni) wanted to spiritualistically conceive life, and they taught the existence of God and the immortality of the soul. But the philosophy of identity, in which the Corleus basked all his life, is a monadology entirely mechanistically constructed, in which God and the soul remain pure names, and there is no logic that can justify them. And all the mental setting, to put it this way, of the Corleo is that of the blindest mechanist, who has never suspected the proper character of the activity and value of the spirit. Giovanni Gentile, Il tramonto della cultura siciliana, Nicola Zanichelli editore, Bologna, 1920, Ch. VIII, p. 140. External links Corleo, Simone Category:1823 births Category:1891 deaths Category:Politicians from Italy Category:Philosophers from Italy