Gaetano Sanseverino
Gaetano Sanseverino | |
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Born | 7 August 1811 Naples, Kingdom of Naples |
Died | 16 November, 1865 (aged 53–54) Naples, Kingdom of Italy |
Occupation(s) | Philosopher, Theologian |
Gaetano Sanseverino (7 August 1811 – 16 November 1865) was an Italian philosopher and theologian. He made a comparative study including the scholastics, particularly Thomas Aquinas, and of the connection between their doctrine and that of the church fathers.
Biography
Gaetano Sanseverino was born in Naples on 7 August 1811.
Gaetano made his studies in the seminary in Nola, where his uncle was rector. After his ordination, he continued the study of philosophy, with the special view of comparing the various systems. Gaetano also became a canon of the cathedral of Naples, professor of logic and metaphysics in the seminary, substitute professor of ethics in the university, and eventually scrittore in the National Library.
Sanseverino had been educated in the Cartesian system, which at that time prevailed in the ecclesiastical schools of Italy, but his comparative study of the various systems supplied him with a deeper knowledge of the scholastics, particularly St. Thomas Aquinas, and of the intimate connection between their doctrine and that of the church fathers. From that time until the end of his life, his only concern was the restoration of Christian philosophy, in which by his writings, lectures and conversation, he was of supreme assistance to Pope Leo XIII. With this object, in 1840, he founded La Scienza e la Fede, a periodical which was continued until 1887 by his disciples and associates, Signoriello and d'Amelio.
Gaetano Sanseverino died in Naples of cholera on 16 November 1865, at age 54.
Writings
- His principal work, Philosophia christiana cum antiqua et nova comparata (5 volumes, Naples, 1862), is incomplete, covering only logic and psychology, but the work is lucid in exposition, extensive in argument, and has a vast number of authors cited and discussed.
- I principali sistemi della filosofia del criterio, discussi colla dottrina de' Santi Padri e de' Dottori del Medio Evo (1850–53), in which he discusses and confutes the systems of Hume and Gioberti on the criterion of truth.
- La dottrina di S. Tommaso sull'origine del potere e sul preteso diritto di resistenza ("On the origin of authority and the pretended right of resistance", 1853).
- Elementa philosophiæ christianæ (1864–70), written for the use of his classes, the last volume ("Ethics") being edited by his disciple Nunzio Signoriello.
See also
- Pope Leo XIII
- Luigi Taparelli
Notes
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Gaetano Sanseverino". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Pizzorni, R. M. (2003). "Sanseverino, Gaetano". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 12: Ref–Sep (2 ed.). Detroit: Thomson Gale. pp. 671–672.
- Dovere, Ugo (2017). "SANSEVERINO, Gaetano". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 90: Salvestrini–Saviozzo da Siena (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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