"Etica della Libertà e Terrorismo"

Considerations about the tragic events surrounding the terrorist attack of September 11 determine the shape of this paper. The work sets these events in a frame whereby the concept of common rules, which was the contractualists’ basic tenet in the passage from the state of nature to civil society, has been broken. The risk of plunging back into chaos pushes towards a revision of the initial contract to restore covenantal equality and the ethics of freedom. The question central to the inquiry is to contrast conflicts compatible with the ethics of freedom, which fall within the concept of unsociable sociability, and conflicts which require to go beyond, i.e. to the dual ethics world. There is some emphasis on dual ethics. Just as dual ethics is unacceptable because individuals are considered as being morally unequal, so too are the resulting political implications whereby violence prevails over consensual rules. Besides, it being decisions taken in a setting of unreasonable uncertainty, behaviors are inefficient by definition. It is, finally, afforded the problem of security as a global public good of quasi-constitutional rank which is a necessary precondition for regaining reasonable uncertainty and the related ethics of freedom.