Ricerc@Sapienza

In reconstructing the conceptual universe of Jonas’ philosophy a privileged place can, or indeed must, be reserved for his relationship with the classical heritage. More specifically, a crucial role is played by Plato, especially because, as Jonas strongly underlines, “with Plato [...] you have to go back a much greater distance to make him applicable to the present. But of course Plato is the greater one, the one we have to study again and again from scratch, the one we must discover [...]. With Plato, you’re never finished, that’s the great foundation for all of Western philosophy”.

This essay analyses the «Notes on the Concept of the Political » that Leo Strauss wrote in 1932 as a commentary on the "Begriff des Politischen" by Carl Schmitt. The first part briefly expounds Strauss's main thesis concerning Schmitt's work - Carl Schmitt proposes «a liberalism with the opposite polarity » - while the second part discusses this thesis, in an attempt to show that the distance between Schmitt and Strauss is far more radical than it might seem.

Il volume prende in esame, con un approccio multidisciplinare, il dibattito in merito al libero arbitrio tra la fine del Medioevo e primi decenni del Cinquecento.