D'ACQUISTO, BENEDETTO. - Philosopher, b. at Monreale in 1790, d. there on 7 Aug. 1867. A Franciscan, he passed through all the ranks of his Order up to the provincialate. He taught philosophy in the colleges of S. Rocco and the Archiepiscopal College, and finally moral philosophy at the university. In 1858 he was appointed archbishop of Monreale.

In philosophy he generally follows the eclectic tendency, developing the principles of the school of Monreale, to which he is ideally linked, and with frequent echoes of Cartesianism and of the Franciscan school. He cannot be called an ontologist, although he holds positions that strongly recall Miceli and Gioberti. From 1841 he turned his attention to moral problems, drawing inspiration here too from Gioberti and V. Miceli. Principal works: Trattato delle idee o Ideologia (Palermo 1857); Corso di diritto naturale e filosofia del diritto (ibid. 1852).

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BIBL.: V. Di Giovanni, Storia della filosofia siciliana, II, Palermo 1873, p. 223 ff.; S. Scimè, Indagini sul pensiero del Risorgimento, Rome 1949, passim.

Salvatore Scimè

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D'Acquisto, Benedetto

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