PHILOSOPHER

Gaetano Mosca

1858 - 1941

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Gaetano Mosca (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaeˈtaːno ˈmoska]; 1 April 1858 – 8 November 1941) was an Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaetano Mosca has received more than 272,617 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Gaetano Mosca is the 500th most popular philosopher (down from 484th in 2019), the 1,441st most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,411th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Italian Philosopher.

Gaetano Mosca is most famous for his theory of the Ruling Class. He argued that society is divided into two classes: a ruling class and a ruled class. The ruling class is the minority in society and has control over the ruled class.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Gaetano Mosca ranks 500 out of 1,267. Before him are Pierre Duhem, Gorakhnath, Antiochus of Ascalon, Hermann Lotze, Shneur Zalman of Liadi, and Zengzi. After him are Dicaearchus, Yi I, Zhang Daoling, Karl Löwith, Guillaume Budé, and Antony Flew.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Gaetano Mosca ranks 39. Before him are André Antoine, Prince Valdemar of Denmark, Alessandro Moreschi, Lovis Corinth, Saad Zaghloul, and Prince Henry of Battenberg. After him are Saitō Makoto, Jan Toorop, Remy de Gourmont, Alois Riegl, Wolfgang Kapp, and Fernand Khnopff. Among people deceased in 1941, Gaetano Mosca ranks 53. Before him are Paul-Jacques Curie, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Franz Gürtner, Ernst Lindemann, Maria Spiridonova, and Edwin S. Porter. After him are Benjamin Lee Whorf, Karin Boye, Henri Cornet, Guido Adler, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, and Natalie of Serbia.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gaetano Mosca ranks 1,441 out of 5,161. Before him are Giuseppe Cesari (1568), Valentino Mazzola (1919), Francis V, Duke of Modena (1819), Pietro Gasparri (1852), Pompeius Strabo (-135), and Giovanni Ferrari (1907). After him are Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (1412), Dicaearchus (-350), Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484), Frank Lentini (1889), Gaetano Bresci (1869), and Matteo Bandello (1484).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Gaetano Mosca ranks 40. Before him are Thomas Cajetan (1469), Gianni Vattimo (1936), Lucilio Vanini (1585), Vittorino da Feltre (1378), Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (1667), and Norberto Bobbio (1909). After him are Dicaearchus (-350), Hippo (-500), Pietro d'Abano (1250), Myia (-600), Silvia Federici (1942), and Bernardino Telesio (1509).

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