The debate over the identity and future of Europe has thrown up a whole series of weighty discussions and concerns, one of which is worthy of special mention: the supposed trade-off between the strengthening of European identity on the one hand and the preservation of the many national identities on the other. Indeed, Europe has always been both a field of contested identities and a space of universal consilience. What has made this co-existence of plural delineations possible is an identity space constituting the real “soul of Europe”. How can we characterize this identity space? In what follows I will attempt a sort of reductio ad unum of the many different issues at stake with a view to identifying a few basic concepts that ought to inform the public discourse. These concepts will revolve around four key words: the human person; democracy; fraternity, common good.

Azzaro, P. L., The 'European Syntesis'. On metapolitical interpretation of Contemporary History of Joseph Ratzinger, in Pietro Luca Azzaro – Lazlo Gaje, P. L. A. –. L. G. (ed.), The Economic, Social and Spiritual Situation of Central and Eastern Europe in the Light of the Catholic Social Thought, Lateran University Press, Roma 2021: 7- 373 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/306541]

The 'European Syntesis'. On metapolitical interpretation of Contemporary History of Joseph Ratzinger

Azzaro, Pietro Luca
2021

Abstract

The debate over the identity and future of Europe has thrown up a whole series of weighty discussions and concerns, one of which is worthy of special mention: the supposed trade-off between the strengthening of European identity on the one hand and the preservation of the many national identities on the other. Indeed, Europe has always been both a field of contested identities and a space of universal consilience. What has made this co-existence of plural delineations possible is an identity space constituting the real “soul of Europe”. How can we characterize this identity space? In what follows I will attempt a sort of reductio ad unum of the many different issues at stake with a view to identifying a few basic concepts that ought to inform the public discourse. These concepts will revolve around four key words: the human person; democracy; fraternity, common good.
2021
Inglese
The Economic, Social and Spiritual Situation of Central and Eastern Europe in the Light of the Catholic Social Thought
978-88-465-1303-8
Lateran University Press
Azzaro, P. L., The 'European Syntesis'. On metapolitical interpretation of Contemporary History of Joseph Ratzinger, in Pietro Luca Azzaro – Lazlo Gaje, P. L. A. –. L. G. (ed.), The Economic, Social and Spiritual Situation of Central and Eastern Europe in the Light of the Catholic Social Thought, Lateran University Press, Roma 2021: 7- 373 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/306541]
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