Epistemologia moderna e bene comune: dal relativismo culturale alla democrazia sussidiaria

Although this is not usually recognized, modern epistemology, especially in the version of Thomas Kuhn, has provided the conceptual basis of modern cultural relativism. So, an analysis of its paradoxical history can help us to better understand this problem, which is crucial for our democracies, and to find a possible solution, which does not consist in an abstract “dialogue among cultures” aimed to find inexistent “common values”, but in the concrete collaboration among existent people committed to construct social structures inspired to different values but aimed to contribute to the common good in a subsidiary way.