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AUGUSTO See also:VERA (1813-1885)
, See also:Italian philosopher, was See also:born at Amelia in the See also:province of See also:Perugia on the 4th of May 1813
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He was educated in See also:Rome and See also:Paris, and, after teaching See also:classics for some years in See also:Geneva, held chairs of See also:philosophy in various colleges in See also:France, and subsequently was See also:professor in See also:Strassburg and in Paris
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He See also:left Paris after the coup d'etat of 1851 and spent nine years in See also:England
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Attaching himself with See also:enthusiasm to See also:Hegel's See also:system, See also:Vera (who wrote fluently both in See also:French and in See also:English as well as in Italian) became widely influential in spreading a knowledge of the Hegelian See also:doctrine, and became the See also:chief representative of Italian Hegelianism
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Without any marked originality, his writings are distinguished by lucidity of exposition and genuine philosophic spirit
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In 186o Vera returned to See also:Italy, where he was made professor of philosophy in the royal See also:academy of See also:Milan
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In the following See also:year he was transferred to See also:Naples as professor of philosophy in the university there
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His Prolusioni alla Storia della Filosofia and Lezioni See also:sulla Filosofia della Storia were connected with his professorial See also:work, which was specially devoted to the See also:history of philosophy and the philosophy of history
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He held this See also:post till his See also:death, which took See also:place at Naples on the 13th of See also:July 1885
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Among his numerous See also: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) ; See also:Strauss, l'ancienne et la nouvelle foi (1873), an attack upon Strauss's last " See also:confession," written from the standpoint of an orthodox Hegelian; and a comprehensive work in Italian, Il Problema dell' Assoluto (Naples, 1872—82)
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His English works are an Inquiry into Speculative and Experimental See also:Science (See also:London, 1856) ; Introduction to Speculative See also:Logic and Philosophy (St See also: See R . Mariano, Augusto Vera (Naples, 1887) and Strauss e Vera (Rome, 1874) ; Karl See also:Rosenkranz, Hegel's Naturphilosophie and deren Bearbeitung durch A . Vera (See also:Berlin,1868) . |
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