Vol. 27 No. 1 (2024): Anno XXVII, 1-2024
Dossier - Ernesto Balducci: una figura pedagogica di forte attualità

“La notte e l’aurora”. Padre Balducci e Giorgio La Pira: un dialogo educativo rivolto al futuro

Rossella Certini
Associata di Pedagogia Generale e Sociale - Università degli Studi di Firenze

Published 2024-07-24

Keywords

  • Religion,
  • Education,
  • Secularism,
  • Dialogue,
  • Dissent

How to Cite

Certini, R. (2024). “La notte e l’aurora”. Padre Balducci e Giorgio La Pira: un dialogo educativo rivolto al futuro. Studi Sulla Formazione/Open Journal of Education, 27(1), 27–35. https://doi.org/10.36253/ssf-15428

Abstract

This paper briefly addresses the relationship of knowledge and esteem between Giorgio La Pira and Father Ernesto Balducci. The classic themes of Lapirian thought are addressed - universal peace, intercultural dialogue, social justice - in particular through the rereading of the biography that Balducci dedicated to the mayor of Florence in 1986. There are three central points of the comparison between the two religious figures: Florence seen like Polis; universal civilization and plurality of cultures; the Mediterranean talks. In their mutual closeness and knowledge, Balducci and La Pira remained faithful to their respective cultural and political positions: the former more critical and philosophical-pedagogical, the latter more historical and empirical. Together with other important religious people from the Florentine area, they gave life to an extraordinary cultural season which affected the city of Florence starting after the Second World War and which still today constitutes an exquisitely critical and profoundly divergent model of meeting and dialogue.

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