Aeneas’ commitment. Virtue and radical democracy after the dialectic of Enlightenment

Abstract

The aporia resulting from Horkheimer and Adorno’s critique of the Dialectic of Enlightenment has been raised after the hermeneutic turn of the tradition started by Nietzsche and Heidegger. Essentially it proposes a new Western philosophy beginning, starting from the ontological duality established by the presocratics and maintained by Aristotle against the monological reason of Plato’s teachings. Starting from a new point of view on the Nicomachean and Eudemian ethics, the author puts forward a critique of modern views on Aristotle’s virtue theory, including MacIntyre, in order to propose a new approach to connect the practice of virtue to radical democracy.