Autore: Bovero, Michelangelo
Titolo: Fondamentalismi. Problemi acuti, rimedi ottusi
Periodico: Ragion pratica
Anno: 2018 - Volume: 51 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 459 - Pagina finale: 470

The secular state, as an ideal paradigm, is a conquest of the enlightenment. Nowadays, its most dangerous enemy is considered to be fundamentalism. It has become common to understand the notion of fundamentalism as a multiplicity of movements united by the main goal of restoring some form of confessional state. The author proposes a redefinition of fundamentalism as the outcome of the synthesis of three factors, each of them also redefined in specialized meanings: fanaticism, integralism, totalitarianism. In this sense, fundamentalism is built upon an inseparable bond between auctoritas and veritas; and, as such, opposed to the secular state, founded on the separation between sovereignty and truth. To confront fundamentalism, a secular state must promote critical and plural public education, as the school for the formation of free thought. In the age of obtuse power, however, this is difficult to happen.




SICI: 1720-2396(2018)51:2<459:FPARO>2.0.ZU;2-T
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