Professor of General Theories of Ethics, History of Ethics, and Philosophy of History. Fellow Scholar at the University of Notre Dame. After his MA in Moral Philosophy, at the Catholic University of Milan, he got his bilingual Ph.D. in Epistemology and Anthropology at the University of Fribourg. He taught in many university (Milan, Lugano, London, Fribourg, Notre Dame). He is Professor of Moral Philosophy at MIUR. Is member of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas, of ISME, and CASEP at London Metropolitan University. He is also member of the Scientifical Committee of Annuario di Filosofia and of the Editorial Board of Acta Philosophica. He publishes in several philosophical journals, like the Notre Dame Review of Politics. Among his publications: La conoscenza per connaturalità in S. Tommaso D'Aquino (1992) and L'aporia del bene apparente. Il ruolo cognitivo delle virtù in Aristotele (1998). He translated into Italian the works of Alasdair MacIntyre and published several essays on his works: among them L'etica del bene apparente (1995). His most recent works are Philia. Riflessioni sull'amicizia (2007) and La necessità dell'amicizia (2008). Actually, his researches are on Contemporary theories of Ethics and their origins, Alasdair MacIntyre, Philosophy of Relations (in particular, friendship and family), Philosophical Counselling, and Philosophy of Culture, oriented on the relationship between American and European Culture, the Role of University, Ethics of Intelligence.