Talk:Benedetto Croce
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Empty words
In the "Philosophy of spirit" section, the concepts of "idea" and "concept" are not distinguished from each other. The relationship between "concept" and "perception" is not clarified. As a result, this section of the article conveys no thoughts and is simply wordplay.Lestrade (talk) 13:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)Lestrade
Pronounciation
How is his name pronounciated? I don't think that is quite obvious. Can someone add phonetical writing of the name? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.177.48.158 (talk) 12:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
- It is probably pronounced "crow–chay." But, even more important, what were his main thoughts?Lestrade (talk) 00:44, 23 November 2008 (UTC)Lestrade
Categories
In the "Philosophy of Spirit (Mind)" section, the explanation of Kantian Categories is typically uninformative. "…Kant's categories, which are concepts like quantity, quality, evolution, more or less any idea we have that can be described as a universal idea." Kant's list of categories is simply a list of the characteristics that every and any object must have if it is an object. In other words, they are the qualities of an object in general. By the way, Kant never claimed that "evolution" is a category.Lestrade (talk) 01:11, 23 November 2008 (UTC)Lestrade
Journal
What about his collaboration with Giovanni Gentile in the journal La Critica ?Lestrade (talk) 17:01, 27 November 2008 (UTC)Lestrade
History
As an historian, wouldn't it have been in Croce's interest to glorify Hegel? That philosopher valued history as being the most important field of intellectual endeavor. In contrast, Croce would naturally dismiss Schopenhauer, who thought that history merely showed the variations on the basic judgment that the world eternally consists of beings who are characterized by will, impulse, desire, and craving (which is why we can be interested in Homer's 2,700 year–old epics).Lestrade (talk) 17:09, 27 November 2008 (UTC)Lestrade
Croce's philosophy of spirit and absolute historicism
The section entitled "Philosophy of spirit" is so confused it states the absolute opposite of Croce's philosophy. Croce's epistemological idealism is not to be confused in any sense with ontological matters, and Croce holds to historicism and immanentism which, to put it simply, states that history and the moment of actual experience is all that "actually exists". In fact, the abstractions of thought and analysis fail to approach in any meaningful sense the object of reality. This confusion is easily understood when one realizes that taking Kant's work as an ontological commitment or dualism is a common error, and this fundamental mistake colors everything one engages with thereafter. In any event, I'll edit, and I'm just explaining the massive changes. PRSturm (talk) 06:27, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
