man finds within himself, and in every aspect of his life, the concrete unity of the spirit. Actualism and science Between art and religion lies science, which shares the limits of both without participating in their validity. Like art, in fact, science does not deal with the universal but with the particular and, in this sense, it is subjective. On the other hand, being faced with an object that it does not create, whose materiality is opposed to the activity of the spirit, places the latter in a condition of passivity typical of religion. Instead of composing together the subjectivity of art with the objectivity of religion, as philosophy does, science thus remains at their level of abstraction, which cannot be overcome except in the self-consciousness of the spiritual act, the only one where subject and object concretely coexist. Gentile, however, rejects the accusation of "hostility to science", claiming, on the contrary, to share the desire, proper to a scientific mind, to overcome in practice every limit is considered inviolable by thought, a desire that finds its foundation in the "fruitfulness" of a philosophy such as the actualist one. It has also been pointed out how, by denying the existence of immutable realities that oppose thought, with actualism every limit to free human creativity also falls in the technico-scientific direction. Ethics and Politics Since the divine is immanent to the human, even on the ethical level, the spirit must be affirmed not as an empty universality that suppresses individuality, but as the concrete overcoming of particular interests in a superior ethics that includes them all and at the same time realizes them. In this sense, Gentile presents himself as "more liberal than Wilson and more socialist than Lenin, certainly" ("più liberale di Wilson e più socialista di Lenin, certamente"), defending a human liberty understood as the capacity to universalize oneself by going beyond the limits of one's own empirical singularity. Gentile rejects the distinction made by Croce between economics and ethics, which, taken individually, remain at the stage of unattainable abstractions, in order to integrate them into a synthesis in which both find their concreteness in action, represented by . The State is conceived by Gentile as a living organism in which individuals express themselves and discover their raison d'être; a state that does not set itself as a fixed and binding goal, but understood dynamically as a constant process