Philosophy Croce, Benedetto: The Conduct of Life. V1. 24-Apr-2011

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Benedetto Croce (February 25, 1866 – November 20, 1952) was an Italian critic, idealist philosopher, and occasionally also a politician. He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, methodology of history writing and aesthetics, and was a prominent liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire free trade.

Preface:
THE essays printed in this volume as “The Conduct of Life” began appearing in Critica in 1915 as “Fragments of Ethics,” a name by which they have since been generally known in Europe.
But they are not “Fragments,” properly, if by that term we mean contributions toward the formation of a system of ethics. Long before they were written I had completed such a system in the third volume of my “Philosophy of the Spirit.” They are independent and separate investigations, rather, of certain problems in our spiritual lives which needed to be analysed and reduced to the principles I had previously propounded.

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