LOS STUDIA HUMANITATIS COMO FILOSOFÍA

The articles collected in this volume were published between 1940 and 1943. They are important not only as expressions of Ernesto Grassi’s philosophical position, but also because of the historical moment in which they were written. The themes addressed are varied, yet they are held together by the central role given to the studia humanitatis. What emerges is a philosophical path that can be considered distinctive, as it develops around a small number of recurring motifs. First, the volume highlights the philosophical recovery of the educational and political tradition of Italian humanism and the Renaissance, examined in relation to the classical world and in its influence on the activities of the Institute for Studia Humanitatis, founded in Berlin in 1942. Second, it offers an alternative and critical reading of modern philosophy, tracing its origins to the importance of humanist culture rather than to the Cartesian emphasis on epistemological primacy. Finally, it underscores the need to affirm the Italian spiritual tradition from both a historical and theoretical perspective, identifying its core in a direct and precise reference to the studia humanitatis.