Guido De Ruggiero

Guido De Ruggiero (Naples, 23 March 1888 – Rome, 29 December 1948) was an Italian historian of philosophy, university professor, and politician.

De Ruggiero denounced both Bolshevik and laissez faire ideas while embracing the trade unions.

[3] Having acceded to the idealism of Giovanni Gentile and Benedetto Croce, his assertion of the values of liberalism made him a leading exponent of the resistance to Fascism.

Later he was rector of the University of Rome from 1943 to 1944 and subsequently held the post of Minister of Public Education in the government of Ivanoe Bonomi (1944).

De Ruggiero states: "I believe the time has come to draw up some kind of provisional judgement on the so-called philosophy of existence, in order to bring it back within the confines of reality."