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Liberal Multiculturalism, neutrality and the Rule of Law
2011
Most contemporary liberal theories of justice agree that principles of justice should be neutral between citizens’ conceptions of the good life. In this essay, I assume that the liberal doctrine of state neutrality can somehow be defended against its critics. y first aim is to show that a certain connection holds between liberal neutrality, suitably understood, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the Rule of Law. By the ‘Rule of Law’ I mean, as has now become usual among legal theorists, a set of formal and institutional features the law may possess in varying degrees. These features define an ideal, which laws have traditionally been expected to live up to. It is, under many respects,…
Looking for the "Vulnerable Subject": The Mencian Account of the Person
2019
The idea of the legal subject as an autonomous agent, with the capacity to choose and freely determine herself without external constraints or interference, complete in herself and independent, has had remarkable normative implications in structuring contemporary legal systems. The philosopher Martha Fineman recently argued against this notion, proposing the alternative one of “vulnerable subject.” This paper suggests that the notion of the person elaborated by the classical Confucian thinkers encompasses the “vulnerable subject.” The Confucian theorizations resonate with the ethic of care; however, their moral and normative relevance carries the potential for a broader scope of application…
I contratti di schiavitù e il lato oscuro dell’antipaternalismo
2013
aporie e distorsioni del femminismo radicale
2016
In this article, I will show that there are some fa llacies in the radical feminist thought, for exampl e in MacKinnon, Berg, Russel, Andrea Dworkin. I will foc us on different themes: violence against women, dif fusion of a patriarchal conception in the mass culture, po rnography, and the concept of free choice.
proibizionismo e antipaternalismo giuridico
2014
Come interpretare il Principio del danno
2017
In this article I will analyse seven types of harms, which can be relevant or irrelevant for the justification of the use of criminal coercion. This conceptual operation is important to solve a fundamental problem, relative to the validity of the Offence Principle according to the liberal ethics
La semplicità immaginaria. Apogeo e crisi dello Stato liberale di diritto.
2011
L’antipaternalismo e il problema delle credenze metafisico-trascendenti
2016
For a liberal or an antipaternalist the theme of decisions and actions based on metaphysical-transcendent beliefs is complex: these actions are irrational or are rational and on which grounds? We can permit a suicide based on metaphysical-transcendent beliefs? In this article, I will argument for a possible solution of this problem grounded on some kind of liberal agnosticism.
Obergefell e il futuro del matrimonio
2016
in this article i will analyze the arguments adduced in the famous judgement of the supreme court of united states Obergefell v. Hodges.
Una riflessione sul giusnaturalismo. A proposito delle teorie di J. Finnis e R.P. George
2015
ABSTRACT Secondo la teoria classica di Bobbio e di Nino, due sono le tesi fondamentali del giusnaturalismo. Una tesi sul concetto di diritto, e sulla connessione necessaria , di carattere definitorio, tra diritto e morale. E una tesi metaetica di tipo oggettivista. Oggi, come sostiene Viola, dopo la rivoluzione di Finnis, il giusnatur alismo si presenta non più come una teoria della morale, ma c ome un’etica derivata dal carattere normativo della natura e da un uso specifico della ragionevolezza pratica. I n particolare ideologica, e in parte ontologica, se mbra oggi la contrapposizione tra giuspositivisti e giusnaturali sti. According to the classic theory of Bobbio and Nino, natural law t…