Background
Coriolano Alberini was born on November 27, 1886, in Milan, Italy. His family emigrated to Argentina in 1887.
Bolívar 263, C1066 CABA, Argentina
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires where Coriolano Alberini studied.
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The University of Buenos Aires where Coriolano Alberini studied.
Coriolano Alberini was born on November 27, 1886, in Milan, Italy. His family emigrated to Argentina in 1887.
Coriolano Alberini entered the National School of Buenos Aires in 1898. In 1906 he entered the University of Buenos Aires where he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences until 1911.
Coriolano Alberini started his career as an assistant professor of Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires in 1918. In 1920, he was appointed a professor of Introduction to Philosophy. He held this post until his retirement in 1946. Alberini also served as Vice-Dean at the University of Buenos Aires from 1921 to 1923 during this time he worked together with Ricardo Rojas.
In 1925 he took up a post of Dean of the School of Philosophy and Letters and held it until 1928. He held this post two more times from 1931 to 1932 and from 1936 to 1940. He also was twice Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buenos Aires, in 1928 and in 1940.
In addition to teaching Alberini participated in the VI World Congress of Philosophy in the United States in 1926. He also was invited by the French Philosophical Society to give a conference in Paris.
Coriolano Alberini's first monography Amoralismo subjetivo was published in the magazine Nosotros. His first book Introducción a la axiogenia was published in 1921. Later he wrote such books as Problemas de la historia de las ideas filosóficas en la Argentina, La Plata, Escritos de filosofía de la educación y pedagogía and Precisiones sobre la evolución del pensamiento argentino.
Coriolano Alberini was an adherent of positivism but later became an anti-positivist. He sought to develop a synthesis of science and philosophy, two fields which he believed were complementary and essential to a comprehensive understanding of reality.
Alberini said that the psyche is the subjective form of life. The existence of the objective culture or spirit cannot be admitted, this is the activity of men in the community. However, he admits that the individual is formed emotionally by landscape and tradition. He also said that philosophy is limited by the person of the philosopher and his preferences.