"' Actual idealism "'was a form of idealism, developed by Giovanni Gentile, that grew into a'grounded'idealism, contrasting the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, and the absolute idealism of G . W . F . Hegel.
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Moreover, this fascist philosophy occurred parallel to Actual Idealism, his philosophic system; he opposed intellectualism for its being disconnected from the active intelligence that gets things done, i . e . thought is killed when its constituent parts are labelled, and thus rendered as discrete entities.
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On the other hand, since 1922 even Benedetto Croce, in a review of the essay " Contributo alla teoria della storia dell'arte " ( later in Opere, IV, pp . 103 113 ), put in doubt that we could still speak of actual idealism in Fazio.
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An example of actual idealism in theology is the idea that although man may have invented the concept of God, it does not make God any less real in any possible sense, so long as God is not presupposed to exist as abstraction ", " and except in case qualities about what existence actually entails ( i . e . being invented apart from the thinking that makes it ) are presupposed.
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Together with Giovanni Gentile and Guido De Ruggiero, he was one of the supporters of that Actual idealism which " had all the romantic seduction and all the optimistic confidence of attracting & the best dissatisfied young people, those not moving towards D'Annunzio or Marinetti ", and in 1914 15 he openly sustained, even with lectures, Italy's intervention in the world war, but he was declared unfit at the military visit.
