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1952–2009 Italy

Franco Volpi (1952 – 2009), was a philosopher, historian of philosophy and a professor at Padua University, who wrote regularly to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

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Philosophy is an inventory of thoughts in the flow of life.

Poor Nietzsche! He was the only philosopher who had the singular privilege of being held responsible for nothing less than a world war.

One of the problems of the current Church is that the production of happiness has slipped out of its hands. But it is not Nietzsche's fault that the power of the Gospels is fading and the condition of Western man is becoming increasingly paganised.

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