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AUGUSTO VERA (1813-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 1015 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUSTO

VERA (1813-1885)  ,
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Italian philosopher, was born at Amelia in the province of Perugia on the 4th of May 1813 . He was educated in Rome and Paris, and, after teaching
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classics for some years in Geneva, held chairs of philosophy in various colleges in France, and subsequently was professor in Strassburg and in Paris . He
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left Paris after the coup d'etat of 1851 and spent nine years in England . Attaching himself with
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enthusiasm to Hegel's
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system, Vera (who wrote fluently both in French and in
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English as well as in Italian) became widely influential in spreading a knowledge of the Hegelian
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doctrine, and became the chief representative of Italian Hegelianism . Without any marked originality, his writings are distinguished by lucidity of exposition and genuine philosophic spirit . In 186o Vera returned to Italy, where he was made professor of philosophy in the royal academy of Milan . In the following
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year he was transferred to Naples as professor of philosophy in the university there . His Prolusioni alla Storia della Filosofia and Lezioni sulla Filosofia della Storia were connected with his professorial
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work, which was specially devoted to the
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history of philosophy and the philosophy of history . He held this
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post till his
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death, which took place at Naples on the 13th of
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July 1885 . Among his numerous
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works may be mentioned Introduction a la philosophie d'Hegel (1855; 2nd ed., 1865); Probleme de la certitude (1845) ; Le Hegelianisme et la philosophie (1861) ; Melanges philosophiques (1862) ; Essais de philosophie Hegelienne (1864) ; Strauss, l'ancienne et la nouvelle foi (1873), an attack upon Strauss's last " confession," written from the standpoint of an orthodox Hegelian; and a comprehensive work in Italian, Il Problema dell' Assoluto (Naples, 1872—82) . His English works are an Inquiry into Speculative and Experimental Science (
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London, 1856) ; Introduction to Speculative Logic and Philosophy (St Louis, 1875), and a
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translation of Bretschneider's History of Religion and of the Christian Church . He published also
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translations into French with commentaries of Hegel's works: Logique de Hegel (Paris, 1859; 2nd ed., 1871) ; Philosophie de la nature de Hegel (1863—65) ; Philosophie de 1 esprit de Hegel (1867—69) ; Philosophie de la religion de Hegel (1876—78, incomplete) .

See R . Mariano, Augusto Vera (Naples, 1887) and Strauss e Vera (Rome, 1874) ; Karl

Rosenkranz, Hegel's Naturphilosophie and deren Bearbeitung durch A . Vera (Berlin,1868) .

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