La nazione. Quale comunità creativa del soggetto: tensione morale ed energia vitale nel neoumanesimo politico humboldtiano

Journal title TEORIA POLITICA
Author/s Vanda Fiorillo
Publishing Year 2002 Issue 2002/3
Language Italian Pages 17 P. File size 72 KB
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The essay analyses the conceptual relationship between life and politics in Wilhelm von Humboldt’s unpolitisch view of public affairs, stressing the instrumental role of the second term compared to the first one. As a matter of fact, a nation represents - according to Humboldt - the place of both ethical and aesthetic life of citizens, which regulates itself morally, through the principle of reciprocity of negative social duties. Therefore a State, as a coercive machine, ought to intervene in the ethical life of citizens, in order to guarantee the external conditions of Bildung, i.e. freedom and diversity of situations, the only case, in which the negative social duty, that imposes respect for other citizens’ rights, is violated. In this way, Humboldt replaces the idea of State’s sovereignty with that of the individual’s.

Vanda Fiorillo, La nazione. Quale comunità creativa del soggetto: tensione morale ed energia vitale nel neoumanesimo politico humboldtiano in "TEORIA POLITICA" 3/2002, pp , DOI: