Il contratto sociale nell’Illuminismo scozzese: percorsi della ricezione e della critica di un'idea moderna
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2010
Citazione:
Il contratto sociale nell’Illuminismo scozzese: percorsi della ricezione e della critica di un'idea moderna / M. Geuna. - In: GIORNALE DI STORIA COSTITUZIONALE. - ISSN 1593-0793. - 20(2010), pp. 93-120.
Abstract:
This essay analyses the influence of modern natural law, and particularly the theoretical
elaborations made by Grotius and Pufendorf, upon certain thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment.
It focuses on Gershom Carmichel, Francis Hutcheson and Thomas Reid – who held, at different
times, the chair of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow – in order to highlight the
peculiarity of the reception of the contractual theory by the manifold trends of the philosophical,
political and moral reflection of the Scottish Eighteenth century.
The episode of the Scottish interpretation of the doctrine of the “duo pacta et unum decretum”
is significant for its deformations and simplifications, in that it testifies to the great circulation of
texts and ideas in protestant countries during the first decades of the Eighteenth century. Scottish
intellectuals, who are anything but closed within a provincial dimension, reformulate conceptual
heritage coming from different cultural traditions, re-elaborating it in the most unlikely bedfellow
fields of research on human nature. Theories will offer a distinct framing of the theme of natural
rights and consequentially of that of their limitation of an associated life.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
M. Geuna
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