Abstract
Autore:
Falco Stefano
Titolo:
"L’asse della discordia. Significato e valore della dimensione politica destra/sinistra"
The aim of this essay is to determine the political meaning of the right/left axis through an application, at the political level, of the physiological meaning of that axis, when applied to the physical arrangements within parliaments. So the right/left distinction takes on the meaning of the cleavage relation pessimistic (right)/optimistic (left) of each member of parliament (and, by extension, of each member of society) concerning the political capacity of society to realize the common good, while the centre/extreme distinction takes on the meaning of the cleavage low/high intensity of each of the two qualitative options. The second part of the essay verifies the applicability of the above meanings as a criterion for making sense of the existence of five political families (right-wing authoritarianism, right-wing liberalism, left-wing liberalism, left-wing authoritarianism and political Catholicism) and of their distribution along the left/right axis, both today and in the past by introducing in the analysis two more couples of variables (God´s sovereignty/popular sovereignty and Catholicism/laicism). Finally the necessary conditions are formulated for which the right/left cleavage, although maintaining its dialectical nature, doesn´t end in an irreconcilable dichotomy, so identifying the necessary conditions for which the political spectrum of parties represented in parliamentary halls has a real value in order to seek the common good.
