Libertà e verità nel pensiero di Luigi Pareyson

The essay intends to reflect upon the relatonship between the notions of truth and freedom, by taking into consideration the articulation of this relationship in Luigi Pareyson’s thought. It is considered first of all Truth and Interpretation, the work in which he argues that the truth, understood as inexhaustible transcendence, reveals itself to the person who in his freedom is called to interpret the truth in a perspective way and to decide for it. For Pareyson freedom is also free not to be free and the evil resides in this disclaimer of the relationship with the truth. The evil, appearing in infinite forms, finds its origin – as Pareyson shows in the Hermeneutics of Christianity presented in Ontology of Freedom – in God, who as original freedom puts his being and puts the being of man, freeing him from evil and inviting him to collaborate in the redemptive work. The divine freedom-truth thus enters into a relationship with human freedom called to responsibility towards all men.