The quest for Italian identity is a political necessity in the fight against forces that aim to deconstruct the nation, but it must avoid wishful thinking and confusion, without indulging in nineteenth-century nostalgia
The normative framework leaves no doubt: a constitutionally protected good is the "human factor" that lives and enlivens the territory, both at the local level and in the more articulated geographic place called "Italy," in which the Constitution settles the Nation and to which it expressly refers in several places.
The Italian legal system acknowledges that political organization and "nation" are entities that do not always coincide: in fact, the former (the "Republic") is obliged to protect the latter (the "Nation")
No longer just the essentially one-sided ethics of "rights" preached by "liberals" and "progressives" regardless of human reality, but an ethics and politics that combine rights and duties within the community in which people's lives take place.
In the last two centuries, two visions opposed: one traceable to Kant, but firmly anchored in a tradition that could be traced-always with generous approximations-from Aristotle to natural lawism; the other, which in more ways than one finds its inspiration in Hegel.
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