Gustavo Bontadini (27 March 1903 – 12 April 1990) was an Italian philosopher, writer, and a teacher. He was born in

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and died in 1990, aged 87. Bontadini was also an influential representative known for

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in the 20th century. From 1951 to 1973, he became a professor of

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in the Catholic university in

. He was also a teacher of

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and other Italian philosophers. The Milan Catholic University

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was named in honour of Bontadini. It was an ancient ice house shaped a circle of 8 meters radius and located at a depth of 11 meters.

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* Saggio di una metafisica dell'esperienza, Milano, Vita e pensiero, 1938. * Studi sull'idealismo. Serie prima (1923–1935), Urbino, A. Argalia, 1942. * Dall'attualismo al problematicismo. Studii sulla filosofia italiana contemporanea, Brescia, La scuola, 1945. * Studi sulla filosofia dell'età cartesiana, Brescia, La scuola, stampa 1947. * Dal problematicismo alla metafisica. Nuovi studi sulla filosofia italiana contemporanea, Milano, Marzorati, 1952. * Indagini di struttura sul gnoseologismo moderno. I. Berkeley, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Brescia, La scuola, 1952. * Il compito della metafisica, Bontadini e altri, Milano, Fratelli Bocca, 1952. * Studi di filosofia moderna, Brescia, La scuola, 1966. * Conversazioni di metafisica, 2 voll., Milano, Vita e pensiero, 1971. * Metafisica e deellenizzazione, Milano, Vita e pensiero, 1975. * Appunti di filosofia, Milano, Vita e pensiero, 1996. 1903 births 1990 deaths 20th-century Italian people Italian Roman Catholics Writers from Milan 20th-century Italian philosophers Italian Freemasons {{Italy-philosopher-stub

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