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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XX , n° 2, Dicembre 2002 ( Contributi ) pag. 126-136
SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY IN BENEDETTO CROCE
ERNESTO PAOLOZZI
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli
The question of the relation between science and philosophy is seminal to the history of thought starting from Galileo's attempt to draw up a coherent scientific method without any irrational residue. One could crudely summarize that, during the arduous journey of history, the dominant cultures, the Weltanschauung, have privileged the scientific approach over the philosophical one, and almost every philosopher, critically differentiating himself from the dominant trend, has dreamt to find the mediation point between the different sensibilities, building hierarchical systems where, now
one now the other, occupies a commanding role.
Croce formed himself in the era of positivism, in one of those historical phases in which philosophy, in many ways, was discredited, metaphysics abhorred, and spiritualism and intuitionism condemned without appeal. Even as a young scholar, Croce was so influenced by that climate as to compose a
piece, which was never published, on the affinities between history and science. The older Croce, with extreme vis polemica, will claim openly never to have been a positivist. He writes that he has made many mistakes in his
life, and some even very serious that he still feels ashamed, but that he was never guilty of being a positivist.
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