Emanuele Severino

Emanuele Severino was an Italian philosopher and a Member of faculty of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and of the University of Venice as well. Because of his original philosophical position, the so-called neoparmenidism, Severino was claimed to be "a giant" and "the only philosopher who in the 20th century can be compared to Heidegger" by Massimo Cacciari. In 1970, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ruled that Severino's ideas were not compatible with Christianity because the basis of his belief was "the eternity of all being", a belief deemed incompatible with a Creator God. Severino received from the President of the Italian Republic the Golden medal of the Republic for culture merits.