Gentile himself call his doctrine ‘absolute formalism': there is no; 'matter' apart from the pure ‘form' of acting. ‘The only matter there is in the spiritual act is the form itself, as activity.' (Herbert Marcuse)

Gentile himself call his doctrine ‘absolute formalism': there is no; 'matter' apart from the pure ‘form' of acting. ‘The only matter there is in the spiritual act is the form itself, as activity.'

Herbert Marcuse

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