THE INFLUENCE OF KANT’S PRACTICAL REASON ON RENATO SERRA’S ETHICAL RESPONSE TO THE GREAT WAR

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In this articleI study the argument used by Serrain Esame dicoscienz adiunlet teratoto reflect on the question of interventismo. For Serra, everyone has to decide his own stance on the war, after a long and deep process of reflection made possible only by excluding irrational elements derived from passions and false beliefs. One’s ethical choice to take part in the war or not must be founded on freedom of judgement. Serra is hostile to all irrational discourse that propounds false myths in order to arouse an emotional acceptance of the war; he advocates instead analytic discourse based on dialectics derived from Kantian philosophy, from which Serra adopts the idea that ‘freedom’ is the condition that allows the individual to evaluate his own action by ‘thinking for himself’, by submitting all opinion to the examination of reason.