Il senso della dialettica nella filosofia di Bertrando Spaventa

Through the historical and genetic reconstruction of Spaventa’s reflection upon the first logical
categories in Hegel’s philosophy, this paper seeks to show how Spaventa broke up the dialectic, while he tried to defend it against the critiques, that several thinkers had moved to it, starting from Trendelenburg. Compared with Gentile’s later position, Spaventa did not notice the idea of a decay of the ‘thought’ into the ‘being’ and never came to unify the form of thought with its matter, the logical act with being. He rather conceived the thought, someway as Kant had done, as the origin of everything – that is, the being would never enter the sphere of determination without the work of the thought.