Guido de Ruggiero's Return to Reason: The Limits of Immanent Critique
The article focuses on de Ruggiero's engagement with the complex normative issues that he felt had been neglected by received currents in idealist thinking in Italy, particularly in the form of a historicism that seemed at face value to undermine the status of moral and political
judgements. It charts de Ruggiero's growing concern throughout his career that preoccupation with system in philosophy should not distort the reality of immediate moral and political experience. In his last work, The Return to Reason, he defends a conception of moral and political value
that transcends narrow historical contexts, without undermining the significance of the historical emergence of ideas that had become a key concern in contemporary thought. De Ruggiero's adaptations of his own views serve as critical criteria for engagement with his approach to philosophy.
He gives us a vivid example of philosophy as work in progress rather than system of ideas.
Document Type: Research Article
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Publication date: 01 January 2020
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