Abstract

W. of Ockham, in search of the common good and the harmony of the social body, elaborates a particular version of the political model called via media in his fundamental text of political philosophy: the Dialogus, part III. To do this, he uses two terms with which he articulates the relationship between Church and state: regulariter, which expresses the autonomy of the powers, and in casu, which allows each power to go beyond its natural environment. The criticism of the abuse of pontifical power over the empire becomes a defense of the freedom of the Christian, but also of the citizen before the secular power: lex evangelica est lex libertatis.