Abstract

In my paper I suggest to begin “von unten”, from the human associations, particularly the political ones in which we live every day and that we consider positive or negative, as Edith Stein wrote in her work “On the State”. In order to understand the meaning of our judgments on good and evil it is necessary to go deeper and to explore the origin of evil in an ethical, metaphysical and religious sense. Therefore, I start from the analysis of Edith Stein’s essential description of community and in particular the one which is at the basis of the State in order to discover the difficulties to build a State according to its essential structure because of the ethical evil. According to Stein to understand the birth and the meaning of this kind of evil and of evil in general it is necessary to go on as far as the metaphysical comprehension of it as she explains in Finite and Eternal Being.