Ideologies / Fascist / Giovanni Gentile
§ The minds · 1875–1944 · Italy · Philosopher
Giovanni Gentile
Philosopher of fascism
Gave the movement its theory of the total state.
Economic+68
SocialistMarket
Governance+92
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−55
TraditionalProgressive
The idealist philosopher who ghostwrote 'The Doctrine of Fascism' and supplied the movement its intellectual scaffolding of the all-encompassing ethical state.
social
Idealist traditionalism fused with the nation as the highest moral end.
economic
The state subsumes economic life into a single national will.
governance
Theorised the 'ethical state' in which the individual realises himself only through it.
Notable for
- 'The Doctrine of Fascism'
- Reformed Italian education
- Theory of the ethical state
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