Dove vanno i laici. Note sull’etica di Paolo Bonetti

Il purgatorio dei laici, a book published by Paolo Bonetti in 2008, is an expression of the “restless laity” of its author. Composed of a series of meditations on the present stage of ethics, especially in its relations with the Catholic religion, that book appears to us today as a collection of “ethical fragments” from which we derive still useful reflections on the present stage of ethics in its relationships with bioethics and on the limits and paradoxes of a metaphysics and immutable "human nature". Reasonable claim to the authentic meaning of secularism and liberalism – keywords of Bonettian ethics –, this article was born from the attempt to trace a profile of the philosopher Bonetti before the challenges of contemporary world’s complexity.