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See also:GENOVESI, See also:ANTONIO (1712-1769) , See also:Italian writer on See also:philosophy and See also:political See also:economy, was See also:born at See also:Castiglione, near See also:Salerno, on the 1st of See also:November 1712. He was educated for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and, after some hesitation, took orders in 1736 at Salerno,
See also:GENSONNE
where he was appointed See also:professor of eloquence at the theological See also:seminary. During this See also:period of his See also:life he began the study of philosophy, being especially attracted by See also:Locke. Dissatisfied with ecclesiastical life, Genovesi resigned his See also:post, and qualified as an See also:advocate at See also:Rome. Finding See also:law as distasteful as See also:theology, he devoted himself entirely to philosophy, of which he was appointed extraordinary professor in the university of See also:Naples. His first See also:works were Elementa Metaphysicae (1743 et seq.) and Logica (1745). The former is divided into four parts, Ontosophy, Cosmosophy, See also:Theosophy, Psychosophy, supplemented by a See also:treatise on See also:ethics and a dissertation on first causes. The See also:Logic, an eminently See also:practical See also:work, written from the point of view of Locke, is in five parts, dealing with (1) the nature of the human mind, its faculties and operations; (2) ideas and their kinds; (3) the true and the false, and the various degrees of knowledge; (4) reasoning and argumentation; (5) method and the ordering of our thoughts. If Genovesi does not take a high See also:rank in philosophy, he deserves the See also:credit of having introduced the new See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of ideas into See also:Italy, at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time preserving a just mean between the two extremes of sensualism and See also:idealism. Although bitterly opposed by the partisans of scholastic routine, Genovesi found influential patrons, amongst them Bartolomeo Intieri, a Florentine, who in 1754 founded the first Italian or See also:European See also:chair of political economy (See also:commerce and See also:mechanics), on See also:condition that Genovesi should be the first professor, and that it should never be held by an ecclesiastic. The See also:fruit of Genovesi's professorial labours was the Lezioni di Commercio, the first See also:complete and systematic work in Italian on See also:economics. On the whole he belongs to the " See also:Mercantile " school, though he does not regard See also:money as the only See also:form of See also:wealth. Specially noteworthy in the Lezioni are the sections on human wants as the See also:foundation of economical theory, on labour as the source of wealth, on See also:personal services as economic factors, and on the See also:united working of the See also:great See also:industrial functions. He advocated freedom of the See also:corn See also:trade, reduction of the number of religious communities, and deprecated regulation of the See also:interest on loans. In the spirit of his See also:age he denounced the See also:relics of See also:medieval institutions, such as entails and tenures in See also:mortmain. See also:Gioja's more important treatise owes much to Genovesi's lectures. Genovesi died on the 22nd of See also:September 1769.
See C. Ugoni, Della letteratura italiana nella seconda See also:meta del secolo X VIII (1820–1822) ; A. Fabroni, Vitae Italorum doctrina excellentium (1778–1799); R. Bobba, Commemorazione di A. Genovesi (See also:Benevento, 1867).
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