ZAMBONI, GIUSEPPE. - Neo-Scholastic philosopher, b. in Verona on 2 Aug. 1875 and d. in Boscochiesanuova (Verona) on 8 Aug. 1950.

After a brilliant apologetic activity against positivist materialism, called in 1925 to the Catholic University of Milan, he applied himself to philosophical problems with a particular methodological approach that he called "gooseology of the act," consisting mainly in the analysis of immediate ontological contents (notions of being, substance, cause) as they are given in the experience of the self and in the extension of these contents to the sphere of the external world and to the problems of moral life. Z.'s work, rich in interesting analyses, betrays the presence of multiple influences (Kant, Rosmini, Mercier) which he intended to fuse into a linear synthesis in which ontology would show itself, through ascending moments, to be rooted in an evidence of immediate transparency for the reality of the act that underlies it from time to time.

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BIBL.: main works: La gooseologia dell'atto, Milan 1923; Introd. al corso di gooseol. pura, ibid. 1924; Sistema di gooseol. e di morale, Rome 1930; La gooseol. di t. Tommaso d'Aquino, Verona 1934; Metafisica e gooseol., ibid. 1935; La persona umana, ibid. 1940; Itinerario filosof. della propria coscienza all'esistenza di Dio, ibid. 1948; La dottrina dalla coscienza immediata (struttura funzionale della psiche umana) e la scienza positiva fondamentale (posthumous), ibid. 1951 (with bibliographical appendix). Critical exposition: A. Rossi, La gooseologia (o « psicologia pura della conoscenza propria attuale ») del prof. G. Z., Piacenza 1935; G. Van Riet, L'epistemologie themiste, Louvain 1946, p. 404 ff.

Cornelio Fabro

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