Liberalism and democracy in the Norberto Bobbio perspective

In the present article an analysis is developed, approached from the political Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004) ourlined about two of the most important political traditions produced by the western culture and which are, without a doubts pillars upon which modernity has been built: democracy and liberalism. From this perspective approaching and encounter points are identified, the same as the tensions that energize the relationship between democracy and liberalism as well as some contradictions that spur Bobbio's thought.