Università Roma Tre

The course aims to examine in a historical-critical view the concepts of liberty/necessity of action, civil society/ secular power, community/morality in three eminent figures of European thought able to influence the contemporary debate on liberty and free will.
The program aims to stimulate and strengthen critical thinking, the ability to argue, the skills of active citizenship In this course the student will have to develop an adequate knowledge of the notion of ‘liberty’ in the thought of Luther, Leibniz, Kant. Starting from an analysis of the texts, the students will have to recognize and illustrate the differences between these three perspectives, particularly as regards some key conceptual pairs.

M. Luther, The freedom of the Christian, 2012.
G. W. Leibniz, Confessio philosophi , 2003.
G. W. Leibniz , Elements of Natural Law, in Political Writings and Natural Law, 1951.
I. Kant, The Conflict of Faculties, 2007.