Table Of ContentEnrico Berti
Struttura e significato
della Metafisica di Aristotele
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Enrico Berti  è  professore ordinario di
Storia della filosofia antica e titolare dal
1971 della stessa cattedra all'Università
di Padova, dove per diversi anni è stato
direttore del Dipartimento di Filosofia.
Docente   anche   alle   Università   di
Ginevra e di Bruxelles, già Presidente
della Società filosofica italiana, vincitore
del premio  Federico Nietzsche  per la
filosofia e del Premio Internazionale di
Filosofia Antonio Jannone, il prof. Berti
è uno dei più autorevoli interpreti del
pensiero aristotelico.
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