Abstract

SALIMBENI, Filippo. A Third Way. The Dialogue between Rosmini and Tocqueville towards a New Politics. Eidos [online]. 2023, n.40, pp.32-57.  Epub Jan 03, 2024. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.40.150.152.

Antonio Rosmini and Alexis de Tocqueville contributed, on the horizon of nineteenth-century political thought, to the configuration of a new model of political philosophy that we believe still retains insights of great relevance today. This article takes as its purpose to describe the ideal dialogue between the two authors in such a way as to let emerge what we may call a third way that arose before the social problems of political discussion in the 1800s, that is, a third way between the earlier solutions of Catholic restoration on the one hand and the French revolutionary spirit on the other. The ideal path arose from the rediscovery of a common anthropology from which a definition of society founded from the end that most distinguishes it, the good of the individual, would be arrived at. The urgency and topicality of the themes that permeate the writings of Rosmini and Tocqueville we believe lie in the highlighting of dangers and distortions, which dominate our societies today, but which our authors were able to identify in the bud, as they were being formed in 19th century Western society.

Keywords : Antonio Rosmini; Alexis de Tocqueville; political philosophy; tyranny of the majority; social good; democracy.

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