THE MODERN AND THE CONTEMPORARY IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL HUMANISM ITINERARY
humanism - modernity - renaissance - nihilism
The word humanist is customary and socially widespread to refer to the realities of promoting human existence. In any case, the truth is that it is a polysemic concept. The end of the medieval spirit represented a firm reorientation of the Western philosophical axis: gradually, theoretical concerns passed from God to man as the central object (or much more recurrent, considering the historically previous matrix of thought) of knowledge. It is the rise of humanism, the influential reflection on the prevalence of the "human object" in its freedom and dignity in a soul environment increasingly devoid of anchoring in the classically posited transcendence. Our goal in this work is firstly to outline the status quaestionis of the modern humanism problem, defining it based on the list of thinkers who inform it; then, establish the line of continuity between modern and "contemporary" (or "post-metaphysical") humanism and, finally, provide a new concept of the phenomenon based on what was discussed, showing how it encompasses these two moments of humanist tradition.