In order to understand the cleavage between Left and Right one must reveal the roots of this opposition. The rift began with the quarrel between the ancients and moderns in 17-18th centuries culminating in the Enlightenment. As a result, modernity questioned almost everything inherited from the past: traditions, God, natural law and right. They were replaced by the ideas of new, history, infinite progress, social justice, and rights. Leggi tutto »