The XIV edition of the School of Liberalism of Messina was presented, promoted by the Luigi Einaudi Foundation and organized in collaboration with the University of Messina e
The Bonino-Pulejo Foundation.
After thanking the magnificent rector of the University of Messina Giovanna
Spatari and the president and editorial director of South publishing company and president of the Bonino-Pulejo Lino Morgante Foundation, the president of the Luigi Einaudi Foundation Giuseppe Benedetto, the scientific director of the School of Liberalism of Messina Giuseppe Gembillo, the honorable Enzo Palumbo member of the Justice Commission of the Luigi Einaudi Foundation, the general manager of the Pippo Rao school has focused on the reasons for the new edition of the cycle of meetings dedicated to the works. representative of liberal thought and on the objectives of the same.
Rao immediately highlighted that it is not a party school (“the liberal conception, as Benedetto Croce writes, is metapolitics, exceeds the formal theory of politics and coincides with a total conception of the world and reality”), but of a cultural occasion that he wants to celebrate, together with the Luigi Einaudi Foundation that has called the Martinian year, the 125 years from the birth of the great fellow citizen Gaetano Martino, fundamental principles of liberalism and stimulating curiosity for the
Liberal thought.
Rao explains: «We live a phase, as the South-Core philosopher by Byung Chul Han writes, dominated
From the anguish determined by pandemics, wars, fear of a new world war, climatic catastrophe. From anguish, which excludes coexistence with freedom and that throws us into the arms of populisms, one comes out with hope. The hope, which presupposes an open future, for the liberals, is based on the liberal idea capable of giving impetus to action to disclose a possible future by strengthening individual, social, economic, civil and certainly liberal-democratic rights. Understanding who is liberal and what it means to be liberal in a society in which many are saying unlikely and dangerously liberal without being, it is the cultural objective of our school to avoid inauspicious hidden totalitarianisms, often, under modern autocracies and to reject the challenges that
They come from the illiberal areas, increasingly widespread. Also this year we will start from the books and declarations of some of the most authoritative liberal thinkers, to better know the liberalism and enemies of free societies. And it is no coincidence that this edition is dedicated to the memory of Gaetano Martino, who brought the liberal idea to the world through the
his positions of foreign minister, president of the European Parliament and scholar of liberalism ».
The course will be divided into 12 lessons, carried out both in the presence (in the classroom 6 of the Cospecs Department – ex Magisterium – of the University of Messina, in via Conception n. 6) and in electronic mode, from 16.30 to 18.00.
The inaugural lesson will take place on Thursday 3 April, while the final meeting will be held
Tuesday 27 May. Saturday 31 May at 11.00 the closing ceremony at the prestigious local of “Il Circolo” of Messina, with the delivery of seven scholarships worth € 500, made available by the University of Messina, by the Bonino-Pulejo Foundation, the Luigi Einaudi Foundation and the coordination of the School of Liberalism of Messina.