Libertà umana come obbedienza a Dio in Irene Kajon

This paper investigates in what way it is possible to think of a philosophy that reflects on the human being starting from Jewish sources, as Irene Kajon suggests, rather than from the Greek-Christian tradition, as humanism mostly does. In the twentieth century, the greatest difficulty in following this line of thought was the tendency, present in Martin Heidegger, to pay attention to the existential datum and to think of the particular as the universal. On the other hand, as we can see in Hermann Cohen, in a philosophy of the human being it is essential to think that the universal is not an expression of the particular. On an ethical level, the very Kantian principle of autonomy allows us to paradoxically conceive, as Irene Kajon does when reflecting on the Passover Haggadah, of human freedom as obedience to God.