Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic

Benedetto Croce

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английский

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Complete work

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Written by the author

H \iVW PHILOSOPHY OF THE PRACTICAL ECONOMIC AND ETHIC MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON • BOMBAY • CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK • BOSTON • CHICAGO DALLAS • SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO PHILOSOPHY OF THE PRACTICAL yi ECONOMIC AND ETHIC TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN OF BENEDETTO CROCE BY DOUGLAS AINSLIE B.A. (OxoN.), M.R.A.S. > *,ir V MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON COPYRIGHT NOTE CERTAIN chapters only of the third part of this book were anticipated in the study entitled Reduction of the Philosophy of Law to the Philo sophy of Economy, read before the Accademia Pontaniana of Naples at the sessions of April 21 and May 5, 1907 (Acts, vol. xxxvii.) ; but I have remodelled them, amplifying certain pages and summarizing others. The concept of economic activity as an autonomous form of the spirit, which receives systematic treatment in the second part of the book, was first maintained in certain essays, composed from 1897 to 1900, and afterwards collected in the volume Historical Materialism and Marxist Economy (2nd edition, Palermo, Sandron, 1907). NAPLES, TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE NAPLES, TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE " A noi sembra che 1' opera del Croce sia lo sforzo piu potente che il pensiero italiano abbia compiuto negli ultimi anni."- G. DE RUGGIERO in La Filosofia contemporanea, 1912. " II sistema di Benedetto Croce rimane la piu alta conquista del pensiero contemporaneo." — G. NATOLI in La Voce, iQth December 1912. THOSE acquainted with my translation of Bene detto Croce' s Esthetic as Science of Expression and General Lingiiis tic will not need to be informed of the importance of this philosopher's thought, potent in its influen

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