La simpatía hacia el ser como postura humana originaria y la libertad en V. Havel

Abstract

This paper aims to show one of the most valuable lessons of the dissident Havel to today’s Europeans. It analyzes his non-theatrical work, taking into account the current cultural and political context. It highlights, first, the harmony between his proposal of living in truth and the Capograssian philosophy of action; afterwards, it studies the political implications of his existential position in the face of the resigned and ultimately nihilistic cynicism that reduces history to the stage of evil. With his sympathy towards being, his attention to the good and his sense of responsibility, Havel testified that the way out of Europe’s identity crisis and the mobilization of personal and social freedom passes through an openness to the beyond in which the here and now finds its meaning