Introduzione. La pedagogia di Aldo Capitini. Un misticismo al servizio del bene comune

Aldo Capitini (1899-1968) is a representative and an original figure in the Italian culture of the twentieth century. Its pedagogy is a paideitic philosophy based on the principle of coexistence of all human beings, which provides to point out to each individual one’s own responsibility towards others and the common good. The coexistence, the openness, the addition, the transmutation, the value, the teacher-prophet, the open school, the university reform: these are some of the Capitini’s themes that the recalls the reader's attention on the extraordinary relevance of a pedagogy that promotes the meeting between education and religion to build a nonviolent world.