Abstract
Philosophy, being devoted to the truth, is an antidote to violence: this is a theme that goes from Sophist criticism down to twentieth-century philosophy. In modern times the side effects of this antidote have emerged, particularly regarding the conflict between the universal and the individual. Starting from Nietzsche the theme of the violence of the philosophical logos has been widespread: from existentialism to anti-Platonism deriving from Nietzsche to Jewish thought. A reaction to the violence of the philosophical logos is present-day relativism. It is nurtured on an objectivistic conception of the truth that has as its result either intolerance or relativism. Only if truth is transcendent and inexhaustible and the relationship with it is mediated by freedom can different positions participate, though in a way that is not immediately evident, in common truth, and this is only accessible through freedom and therefore cannot be imposed.
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