Based on his polar opposition methodology, Guardini’s interpretation of the Political includes two dimensions: from a top-down glance politics contains within itself the dimension of Highness (Hoheit), that is, the dimension of justice which gives form to reality, from a bottom-up view politics refers to the existential dimension of the “people”, which strives for being an independent community, bearer of its own identity. These two dimensions both risk to be sacralized: the State tries to impose its own authority as absolute, the peoples risk to exalt their own national values. According to Guardini, the single’s conscience in relation to God is the real antidote to totalitarianism, as the history of Christianity has shown starting from the first martyrs. Through their sacrifice, Christianity has been able to overcome every absolutization of the Political, founding a model of society based on personal responsibility and freedom.

La politica e i suoi fondamenti in Romano Guardini / Nicoletti, Michele. - In: HUMANITAS. - ISSN 0018-7461. - STAMPA. - 74:2-3(2019), pp. 294-307.

La politica e i suoi fondamenti in Romano Guardini

Nicoletti, Michele
2019-01-01

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Based on his polar opposition methodology, Guardini’s interpretation of the Political includes two dimensions: from a top-down glance politics contains within itself the dimension of Highness (Hoheit), that is, the dimension of justice which gives form to reality, from a bottom-up view politics refers to the existential dimension of the “people”, which strives for being an independent community, bearer of its own identity. These two dimensions both risk to be sacralized: the State tries to impose its own authority as absolute, the peoples risk to exalt their own national values. According to Guardini, the single’s conscience in relation to God is the real antidote to totalitarianism, as the history of Christianity has shown starting from the first martyrs. Through their sacrifice, Christianity has been able to overcome every absolutization of the Political, founding a model of society based on personal responsibility and freedom.
2019
2-3
Nicoletti, Michele
La politica e i suoi fondamenti in Romano Guardini / Nicoletti, Michele. - In: HUMANITAS. - ISSN 0018-7461. - STAMPA. - 74:2-3(2019), pp. 294-307.
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