Abstract

Contemporary scientific investigation, mainly through psychoanalysis and sociology, has shown that homo violens is a dimension of homo sapiens. At the same time, violence has emerged as a threat to humankind's survival. Freedom itself was, for Kant, the anthropological basis of human rationality. Rationality moves human beings toward self-fulfillment. This paper, based on the critical thought of E. Weil, defends the proposal of an education which, in assessing violence philosophically, attempts to oppose it.