Alberto Jori (born 1965) is an Italian neo-Aristotelian philosopher. Born in

Mantua Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name. In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture ...

, on his father's side he is the descendant of an old noble Swiss family of barons (

Freiherren (; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , literally "free lord" or "free lady") and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire ...

) from

Ticino Ticino (), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino,, informally ''Canton Ticino'' ; lmo, Canton Tesin ; german: Kanton Tessin ; french: Canton du Tessin ; rm, Chantun dal Tessin . ...

and patricians from Zurich. On his mother's side he is related to a long

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

line of Mantuan

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, from which the

kabbalists Kabbalah ( he, קַבָּלָה ''Qabbālā'', literally "reception, tradition") is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal ( ''Məqūbbāl'' "receiver"). The defin ...

Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto ( 1625 – 1 October 1697), also known by the Hebrew acronym ''RaMa"Z'', was a rabbi, Kabbalist, and poet. Zacuto, who was born into a Portuguese Marrano family in Amsterdam, studied Jewish subjects under Saul Levi Morteir ...

(also known as the Ramaz), Solomon Aviad Sar Shalom Basilea and the mathematician

Gino Fano Gino Fano (5 January 18718 November 1952) was an Italian mathematician, best known as the founder of finite geometry. He was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy. Fano made various contributions ...

were also members. He studied in

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and

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and received a grant from the

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (german: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) is a foundation established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Resear ...

. In 2003, with his book on

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

, he won the prize of the

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(Paris,

Sorbonne Sorbonne may refer to: * Sorbonne (building), historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities. *the University of Paris (c. 1150 – 1970) *one of its components or linked institution, ...

). He is Professor of Philosophy at the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Wü ...

, Germany, and is an exponent of the School of "Practical Philosophy". He is a member of the following academic institutions: "Accademia Ambrosiana", "Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana", and "International Academy of the History of Science" and is also co-founder of the "Academia Judaica/'Tarbut' - International Academy of Jewish Studies".

Publications

* ''La responsabilità ecologica'' (ed.), Studium, Roma 1990 * ''Medicina e medici nell'antica Grecia. Saggio sul 'Perì technes' ippocratico'', il Mulino, Bologna-Napoli 1996 * Aristotele, ''De caelo'' (ed.), Rusconi, Sant'Arcangelo di Romagna 1999 (II ed. Bompiani, Milano 2002) * Lessing, ''Gli ebrei'' (ed.), Bompiani, Milano 2002 * ''Aristotele'', Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2003 * ''Identità ebraica e sionismo in Alberto Cantoni'', Giuntina, Firenze 2004 * ''Hermann Conring (1606–1681). Der Begründer der deutschen Rechtsgeschichte'', MVK, Tübingen 2006

References

External links

Universität Tubingen Philosophisches Seminar

International Academy of the History of Science

Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jori, Alberto 1965 births Living people Writers from Mantua 20th-century Italian Jews 20th-century Italian philosophers 21st-century Italian philosophers Jewish philosophers 21st-century Italian Jews