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Two Types of Liberal Perfectionism*
2005
Since the publication of J. Raz’s Morality of Freedom (Raz 1986), liberalism has often been interpreted as a perfectionist political morality.1 The starting point of this analysis is the refusal, by Raz and other philosophers, of the distinction between theories of the good and theories of justice. According to these authors, liberalism as a theory of justice or, as it was later considered, as a “political doctrine,” faces many theoretical difficulties: the issue of neutrality, the problematic distinction between comprehensive moral doctrine and a merely political account of legitimacy, the vagueness of the concept of “citizen,” the relationship between liberal and non-liberal moral culture…
Gibt es den strafrechtlichen Paternalismus? Ein Beitrag zu den Prinzipien der Kriminalisierung
2015
German translation of "ESISTE IL PATERNALISMO PENALE? UN CONTRIBUTO AL DIBATTITO SUI PRINCIPI DI CRIMINALIZZAZIONE" (originally published in Rivista italiana di diritto e procedura penale, 2014, pp. 1209-1248). A discussion on whether the so-called criminal paternalism is compatible with the fundamental assumptions of liberalism has been going on for a long time. The aim of this article is to show that criminal paternalism is actually not an autonomous principle of criminalization. Upon making a distinction between tutelary and despotic paternalism, this paper shows that the former is a manifestation of the principle of harm, while the latter is only apparently opposed to liberalism. Indee…
Bioetica, sacralità della vita e virtù. Osservazioni critiche su un recente libro di M. La Torre
2022
In this paper, some critical remarks on M. La Torre’s book, Bioetica in tempo di pandemia are exposed. These remarks concerns: 1) the justification of paternalism according to La Torre’s liberal account of bioethics. If paternalism is justified then it is open to debate in which sense his proposal can be labelled as “liberal”; 2) what one earns with assuming that in order to solve conflicts of values we should prefer moral specificationism in front of Alexy’s balancing between legal principles. We will show that in arguing for specificationism La Torre tries to avoid the phenomenon of tragic choice, without succeeding; 3) the lack of clarity in depicting the idea of “sacred life”. This idea…
Repliche ai contributi di Moreso, Spena, Fiandaca, Diciotti
2021
in this article, I replky to articles which discussed my book Contra el paternalismo juridico
La forza dell’argomento peggiore. La retorica paternalista nell’argomentazione morale e giuridica
2012
In this essay, I shall analyze some arguments advanced for legal paternalism, which are fallacious or rationally insufficient. Some of the worst arguments for legal paternalism. For example, the argument of life’s sacred value, the argument of human dignity or the argument of common good. Why it is important to defend legal antipaternalism against these arguments? Because they are, in spite of their weakness, rhetorically very used in philosophical, ethical, legal, judicial debate. They likely dissimulate other arguments considered less persuasive, like the theological argument or the moral perfectionist argument for legal paternalism
Spunti problematici in tema di dignità umana come bene penalmente rilevante
2011
l'articolo intende sottoporre a revisione critica la tendenza del diritto penale a concepire la dignità umana come un bene giuridico pregiudizialmente sottratto con il grappolo dei diversi interessi coinvolti dalle singole fattispecie incriminatrici. Una tendenza che bloccherebbe in partenza la possibile individuazione di tipologie casistiche da sottrarre all'area dei comportamenti punibili. Si sottolinea che, data la natura essenzialmente valutativa del concetto di dignità, l'argomentazione pubblic svolta in sede parlamentare o giurisdizionale non può indicare in positivo quali beni ammettere ala tutela penale, ma solo tracciare in negativo i limiti all'intervento punitivo secondo la logic…
Las claves interpretativas del libre desarrollo de la personalidad.
2014
La fórmula del libre desarrollo de la personalidad se encuentra habitualmente incorporada en los textos constitucionales y en las Declaraciones de derechos. Surge la necesidad de conjugar su reconocimiento jurídico con el del pleno desarrollo de la personalidad, comúnmente considerado como objetivo de la educación. Una interpretación sistemática obliga a considerar a ambas expresiones como sinónimas. El libre desarrollo de la personalidad representa la consagración jurídica del principio de autonomía individual. Como tal, impone el establecimiento de unas políticas públicas orientadas a la eliminación de los condicionamientos económicos y sociales y a la reducción en lo posible de los cond…