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Abstract

Gustavo Bontadini (1903-1990) interpreted idealism as the completed realisation of modern philosophy. Idealism, understood in an 'essential' and not 'rhetorical' sense, is the thesis that thought is the manifestation of being. Experienced reality is the immediate realisation of thought. If experienced reality is considered in a strictly phenomenological sense, it becomes the starting point of an inference that leads thought to recognise a transcendent reality, which turns out to be freely creative of experienced reality itself.