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Sergio Cotta (Florence 6 October 1920- Florence May 2007), was an Italian philosopher of law and politics. His father Alberto Cotta was a distinguished scholar in the field of forestry; his mother Mary Nicolis di Robilant a Piedmontese aristocrat.

Life
A commissioned officer during the Second World War when the Italian army was disbanded after the 8th of september 1943 took active part in the resistance movement. Together with his brother Carlo Gabriele was one of the leaders of a non communist resistance unit which fought in the hills of Monferrato. For this activity received a bronze medal. After the war he entered academic life in the university of Torino where he was an assistant of Norberto Bobbio and later taught in the universities of Perugia, Trieste, Florence and Rome. He was the director of th Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia del Diritto, a member of the Lincean Academy and of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France,

Works

 * La sfida tecnologica 1968
 * L'uomo tolemaico 1975
 * Why violence ?