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Marcello Pera ((:marˈtʃɛllo ˈpɛːra)) (born January 28, 1943〔(Page at Senate website ) .〕) is an Italian philosopher and politician. He was the President of the Italian Senate from 2001 to 2006. ==Career== Pera, who was born in Lucca,〔 graduated in accounting, and he worked for the Banca Toscana and for the ''Camera di Commercio'' in Lucca. He went on to study philosophy at the University of Pisa, concentrating on the works of Karl Popper and his ''open society'' theory, and advocating these principles during the difficult 1970s, the ''anni di piombo''. His academic career began 1976 at the University of Pisa. He then went on to pursue research activities internationally: Visiting Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, 1984; Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., 1990; Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Philosophy of Natural Sciences, London School of Economics, 1995-96. He taught Theoretical Philosophy from 1989 to 1992 at the University of Catania. In 1992 he became full professor of Philosophy at the University of Pisa. Marcello Pera has written for the newspapers ''Corriere della Sera'', ''Il Messaggero'', and ''La Stampa'', and to the news magazines L'Espresso and Panorama. Pera has become a leading opponent of post-modernism and cultural relativism and on this subject he resonates with religious thinkers. Opposing cultural relativism he declared, "There are... good reasons for deeming that some institutions are better than others. And I deny that such a judgment must necessarily lead to a clash." 〔http://www.senato.it/presidente14leg/21572/21575/28223/42108/composizioneattopresidente.htm〕 Opposing the post modern denial of the possibility of ascertaining objective facts, he says, "Against deconstructivism I do not deny that facts do not exist without interpretation. I refute Nietzsche's thesis that "there are no facts, only interpretations" (F. Nietzsche, ''Afterthoughts''); or Derrida's "there is nothing beyond the text" (J. Derrida, ''Of Grammatology)''." 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marcello Pera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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