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Rosmini-Serbati, Antonio

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Rosmini-Serbati, Antonio (1797–1855), Italian philosopher. His system is a form of Idealism, founded on the leading idea of indeterminate being, innate in the human soul. If analysed, this idea divides itself into a plurality of other ideas which are identical with those that are in the mind of God. He distinguished between degrees of being according to their completeness, God alone being absolutely complete. The being, however, which actualizes finite nature and which is the object of human intuition, is ‘something of God’, though not God Himself. Some of Rosmini's works were put on the Index in 1849, though removed before his death, but 40 propositions were mildly condemned in 1887–8.

In 1828 he founded the congregation of ‘Fathers of Charity’, often known as ‘Rosminians’. Its aim is the sanctification of its members, along with such works of charity as they may be called upon to perform.

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