Abstract
This article addresses the questions “why do we still have to read Kant today?”, “what kind
of responses can he give us in the era of global terrorism?”. In other terms, today, “What does
it mean to orient oneself in thinking?”. Because his concept of renewed religious laity, distant
from both fanatic fundamentalism and indifferent secularism, becomes the compass we can
only rely on and authentically trust in the relationship with the other. Issues identified on reading the interesting kantian work, studied during the last academic year and discussed in the
meeting of the 17th March 2017 between Liceo Classico “La Farina” and DICAM of the University
in Messina, in the context of the project Tradition and Contemporaneity, set by the Italian Philosophical Society (SFI).