Comunità e libertà. La lezione di Aristotele

According to the political community as a community of freemen and equal, Aristotle introduces a new connotation in the one-many relation, and in the conception of nature as an end. The model of the arché politiké penetrates deep into the Aristotelian metaphysics, coming into conflict not only with the limitations of his conception of political freedom, but also with the despotic principle that pervades his entire teleology. The article points out these aspect that prepares the universality of modern liberty, in comparison with the Hegelian critique of the identification between freedom and Lordship and with the Hegelian conception of the relationship between unity and diversity according to the "community" character of the divine