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
... [Show full abstract] that energize the relationship between democracy and liberalism as well as some contradictions that spur Bobbio's thought.