Università Roma Tre

In the ancient world and then again in the modern one, "La Repubblica" has never failed to carry out its main task: that of inviting people to think about the destiny of their individual and social lives. According to Plato, destiny is not prescribed and immutable, but to be imagined, argued and built.
Together with Plato's Republic and in opposition to it, Aristotle's Politics is the text at the foundation of the whole Western political tradition. If in the Platonic State no one has the right to a form of existence that is disinterested and immune from the concerns of common life, for Aristotle instead "the ideal city is that in which every citizen can dispose of himself for activities for which he is not accountable to the city, and in view of which he also exercises the ethical virtues and makes his own contribution to the public life of the city".