Abstract

[War, peace and the role of the jurist. Voices from the great Russian literature of the 19th century] The essay identifies in the opposite attitude of the main characters of Dostoevskij’s The legend of the Grand Inquisitor the models of realism and utopianism respectively in the relationship between man and power. It brings back into this scheme the opposing positions of Schmitt and Kelsen related to international law in the years following the First World War, identifying the task of the democratic jurist, after the end of the Second World War, in the research and construction of institutions and stages in order to progressively approach, in a solid and concrete way, the goal of global peace looking at the principles without rhetoric and without any illusion of an easy and definitive implementation.