Dall'antico al moderno: l'unificazione dopo la scissione

Starting from remarking the difference between the ancient and the modern, especially in relation to the respective ways of living, the contribution aims to show how Humboldt kept alive the tension between these terms within a consideration focused through a political point of view on the reunification of ‘virtue’ and ‘happiness’, coherently with an ‘aesthetic’ way of conceiving the “ultimate task of existence”.