Abstract

Moving from the analysis of the compatibility/convergence between religious transcendence and the instances of a post-metaphysical historicism, within this placement of the “religious” in the human conscience, the author looks for the elements of differentiation of such a “historicist” point of view with those of a religion in the full sense, i.e. as a “full-bodied” living religion. The focal point of such a differentiation is their degree of closeness/remoteness from a “rationalist” view of the world, which remains a scheme prisoner of its own logical determinations: the rationalist’s pathos, in fact, is not that of opening oneself to the sense of the individual and of the historical, of freedom and personality, but that of shutting all them in a necessary system of rational relationships. There is much more history in an experience of religion meant in a classical sense than that we could find in the soft landing of a religious deism