“The peculiarity of philosophy in Italy is, with minor exceptions, an endless ta

—“The peculiarity of philosophy in Italy is, with minor exceptions, an endless target practice with the object of refining some aspects of German classical idealism, or else the re-hashing of themes from the philosophy of the ‘schools’ in quasi Thomistic ways.‘”—

interesting positioning. I tend to read only the aristocratic italian writers and I see them as only sligthly sentimental empiricists. So perhaps I read only the scientific wing (those that descend from machhieavelli). But it occurs to me that while french love deceit and subtlety, and germans abstract obfuscation, the italians are less trusting and their philosophy more skeptical, if beautiful.