Ángel Cappelletti (March 15, 1927– November 25, 1995) was a philosopher and university professor. He was born in

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city, located northwest of Buenos Aires on the west bank of the Paraná River, is the third-most populous city in the ...

. He studied philosophy at the

Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires (, UBA) is a public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the second-oldest university in the country, and the largest university of the country by enrollment. Established in 1821, the UBA has educa ...

where he also received his PhD in 1954. He moved to Venezuela in 1968 and began teaching at the Simon Bolivar University until his retirement in 1994, when he returned to Rosario. During his career he translated works from Greek and Latin and composed numerous works on ancient philosophy as well as on the subjects as

positivism Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positivemeaning '' a posteriori'' facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience.John J. Macionis, Linda M. Gerber, ''Soci ...

and

anarchism Anarchism is a political philosophy and Political movement, movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or Social hierarchy, hierarchy, primarily targeting the state (polity), state and capitalism. A ...

in Latin America.

Works

* Los fragmentos de Heráclito (1962) * Utopías Antiguas y modernas (1966) * El socialismo utópico (Rosario, 1968) * La filosofía de Heráclito de Efeso (1970) * Inicios de la filosofía griega (1972) * Cuatro filósofos de la Alta Edad Media (1972, 1993) * Introducción a Séneca (1973) * Introducción a Condillac (1974) * Los fragmentos de Diógenes de Apolonia (1975) * La teoría aristotélica de la visión (1977) * Ciencia jónica y pitagórica (1980) * Protágoras: naturaleza y cultura (1987) * Sobre tres diálogos menores de Platón (1987) * Noias de filosofía griega (1990) * La estética Griega (1991, 2000) * Positivismo y evolucionismo en Venezuela (1992) * Textos y estudios de filosofía medieval (1993) * Estado y poder político en el pensamiento moderno (1994) * Bakunin y el Socialismo Libertario (1986) * El pensamiento de Malatesta (Montevideo, 1990) * La teoría de la propiedad en Proudhon y otros momentos del pensamiento anarquista (Mexico, 1980) * El pensamiento de Kropotkin (Madrid, 1978) * Etapas del pensamiento socialista (Madrid, 1978) * Francisco Ferrer y la pedagogía libertaria (Madrid, 1980) * Prehistoria del anarquismo (Madrid, 2006) * Hechos y figuras del anarquismo hispanoamericano (Móstoles, 1991) * Utopías y antiutopías después Marx (Montevideo,1997) * El anarquismo en America Latina (Caracas, 1990) with Carlos Rama. Translations: * Séneca: De brevitae vitae (1959) * Epístolas pseudos-heraclíteas (1960) * Abelardo: Ética (1966) * Platón: Georgias (1967).

References

1927 births 1995 deaths Argentine people of Italian descent Historians of anarchism Argentine anarchists People from Rosario, Santa Fe Academic staff of Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) 20th-century Venezuelan philosophers 20th-century Argentine historians 20th-century Argentine philosophers {{Argentina-philosopher-stub