The article analyses three different kind of relationships between man and woman: brotherly, friendship and love affair. Each one is considered from three points of view: symmetry/asymmetry, reciprocity and complementarity. Selfishness is threatening the fraternal relationship, ambiguity could ruin friendship, and love affair clashes with a sexual and identity gender’s widespread crisis. Asymmetry is more connected with culture than with nature, and reciprocity gives the possibility to overcome it. It’s also possible to reach complementarity when man and woman have the same dignity in the relationship. This “pragmatic complementarity” is connected with the idea (as Kant said) that every single person “does, can, and must do something of himself/herself”. Therefore every man and every woman can realize their lives throughout these relationships, as experiences of real freedom.
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