La fenomenologia del Sé nel giovane Bontadini. Appunti per un confronto con Sartre

In the years immediately following his dissertation, Bontadini advocated a fideist-style met- aphysics based on the «circle of power and consciousness», which was, however, soon aban- doned. This paper aims to compare his ideas with the thought of Sartre, who, despite arriving at an anti-metaphysical conclusion, shares with Bontadini the perspective of viewing the human being as an incomplete circle of consciousness and power (or being). Finally, a different episte- mological understanding of this circle is proposed in order to effectively explore the possibility of a metaphysics of transcendence.