Abstract

One of the challenges of contemporary philosophy consists in its intercultural declination, that is the capacity to reconsider its theoretical horizon in the light of the new problems raised by cultures which are different from the western one, and by the chance to realize a positive dialogue with them. The Neapolitan school of the “critical-problematical historicism” proposes a very prolific perspective about this theme. Underlining the historical and the practical dimensions of philosophy, it asserts the prominence of the political and of the ethical categories. This article is inspired by two books about the above mentioned theme, and shows the importance of some key concepts of the historicist tradition – especially the one of “universalization” –, in order to establish an Ethics to be sharable in an intercultural way, beyond any political or religious difference