Abstract

In the present paper I discuss Luigi Pareyson’s late work, published in the posthumous Book Ontologia della libertà, as an timely attempt to clarify the experience of freedom through an interpretation of Christian mythology. Concerning this matter Pareyson’s ideas are both timely – as they stress the relation between freedom an evil – and at the same time untimely – because of their vindication not only of an outdated theologia crucis, but also of the concept of an arbitrary God, which Gianni Vattimo has rightly criticized opting for a theology of radical contingency.