The moral problem

Gentile, Giovanni (author), Lloyd, Lizzie (translator) and Wakefield, James R. M. (translator) 2014. The moral problem. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 20 (1-2) , pp. 311-342.

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Abstract

In this lecture, taken from the Discorsi di religione (Lectures on Religion), Gentile tries to make sense of morality in the absence of a transcendent reality. This lecture is in some respects uncharacteristic of Gentile's work. While the tenets of actual idealism give rise to the question, the answer is elaborated without recourse to the technical apparatus of actual idealism. As a result, the lecture plainly shows us Gentile not, as he was sometimes thought to be, as the expounder of a rigid and rarefied doctrine, but as a sensitive and careful interpreter of the philosophical problems thrown up in the course of life as actually lived.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics Schools > Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Additional Information:	This is a translation by Lizzie Lloyd and James Wakefield of an essay by Giovanni Gentile, originally published in Italian.
Publisher:	Imprint Academic
ISSN:	1744-9413
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2025 09:41
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/112100

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