Law and Community: Alessandro Giuliani’s Aristotelian Vision

Authors

Francis J. Mootz III, University of the PacificFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Abstract

This article considers the theoretical, practical and pedagogical significance that the classical understanding of community holds for contemporary legal theory. We draw our inspiration from the work of the Italian philosopher and legal theorist, Alessandro Giuliani (1925-1997). Giuliani argued that the dialectical logic of argumentation has important implications for civic life. To develop this thesis he recuperated Aristotle’s conception of community and also drew from the substantial contribution to Aristotle’s legacy by the seventeenth-century rhetoric scholar, Giambattista Vico. We will emphasize Giuliani’s inventive use of these sources to articulate an argumentatively-based community that is capable of bearing the legal and civil demands of modernity.

Publication Title

FERALISIMI.IT: RIVISTA DI DIRITTO PUBBLICO ITALIANO, COMUNITARIO E COMPARATO

First Page

1

Last Page

29

Recommended Citation

Francis J. Mootz III, Law and Community: Alessandro Giuliani’s Aristotelian Vision, FERALISIMI.IT: RIVISTA DI DIRITTO PUBBLICO ITALIANO, COMUNITARIO E COMPARATO 1 (2013).
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/facultyarticles/641