Mario Vegetti

Mario Vegetti
Born 4 January 1937
Milan, Italy
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School Continental philosophy
Main interests
 Ethics · History of philosophy

Mario Vegetti (born 4 January 1937) is an Italian historian of philosophy.

Education

Mario Vegetti was born in Milan in 1937. He graduated with a thesis on Thucydides' historiography at the University of Pavia, as a student at Collegio Ghislieri.

He has been Full Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Pavia and has directed the Department of Philosophy of the same University. He is now professor at Scuola Superiore Studi Pavia IUSS.

He is a member of the International Collegium Politicum, of the Accademia napoletana di scienze morali, and of the Istituto Lombardo-Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.

Research interests

He translated and wrote a commentary of many of Hippocrates', Aristoteles', and Galen's writings. Among Vegetti's most important works we can remember Il coltello e lo stilo (Il Saggiatore, Milano, 1996²), Tra Edipo e Euclide (Il Saggiatore, Milano, 1983), L'etica degli antichi (Laterza, Roma, 1996²), Guida alla lettura della 'Repubblica' di Platone (Laterza, Roma, 1999), Quindici lezioni su Platone (Einaudi, Torino 2003). At the moment, he is editing a translation and commentary of Plato's Republic. The first six volumes have already been published (Bibliopolis, Napoli 1998-2005).

Vegetti's research work covers several fields of History of Ancient Thought such as: Ethics, Politics, Anthropology, History of Medicine and Science, and Philosophical Historiography. Some of his papers are devoted to topics concerning the forms of subjectivity, anthropological theories, and the formation of the concept of cause, other studies deal with Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Hellenistic Medicine, and Galen.

Publications

Acclaimed internationally for his work on Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen and the ancient ethics, has published the following works:

He contributed to the following works:

He translated:

He wrote several essays including:

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