Francesco Orestano

Background

Francesco Orestano was born on April 14, 1873, in Alia, Palermo, Sicily. He was a son of Luigi and Elisabetta Bellina.

Education

Francesco Orestano studied at the University of Palermo and received a degree in law in 1896. He also attended Leipzig University and received a degree in philosophy in 1901.

Career

Francesco Orestano started his career as a professor at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1903. He left this post in 1907 and became an extraordinary professor at the University of Palermo. In 1911, Orestano was appointed a full professor. He left the University of Palermo in 1924 and devoted himself to writing and philosophy.

Francesco Orestano published his first work Comenio in 1906. Later he wrote such books as Prolegomeni alla scienza del bene e del male, Nuovi princìpi, Esame critico di Marinetti e del Futurismo, and many others. Full collection of his works that includes about 80 publications, was published in the 1960s' by the CEDAM.

Achievements

• Francesco Orestano was an Italian educator, philosopher and writer who was famous for his book New principles.

Works

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  • Prolegomeni alla scienza del bene e del male

    (Italian edition.)

    1942
  • Nuovi princìpi

    (Italian edition.)

    1925

Views

Francesco Orestano was an ethicist, phenomenologist and promulgator of a positivist philosophical idea also inspired by Johann Friedrich Herbart.

Quotations: "The suicide shows that there are evils in life bigger than death."

Membership

Francesco Orestano was a member of the Italian Academy and the Italian Philosophical Society.

Interests

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  Johann Friedrich Herbart

Connections

Francesco Orestano married Sofia Travaglia in 1907. The marriage produced three children.

Father:

Luigi Bellina

Mother:

Elisabetta Bellina

Wife:

Sofia Travaglia

Son:

Riccardo Orestano

Son:

Luigi Orestano

Daughter:

Eliana Orestano