Philosophers and Religious Thinkers
Benedetto Croce (1866-1952)
In the early twentieth century, philosopher Benedetto Croce was well known for his views on aesthetics and its correlation to history. His theories on historical knowledge expanded on those of Kants and Hegel ideologies of aesthetics and art. Croce reasoned that intuition and expression were the first two concepts of art, that human knowledge was either intuitive or logical, and that historiography the way history is written is interwoven with philosophy and influenced by aesthetics, intuition, and individual expression.
Among his 80 publications, one of his best known works is Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic (1902), his treatise of human knowledge. The following year he established La critica, a magazine that reviewed the historical, literary, and philosophical works of European writers. He ceased publishing the magazine in 1944 and started I Quaderni della Critica, Notebooks of Critical Thought. Croce is viewed by many as "one of the very few great teachers of humanity."
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Written by Janice Mancuso
