Nr. 1/2009FABIO VECCHI Antonino Mantineo, “Le confraternite: una tipica forma di associazione laicale” (Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienza e Storia del Diritto. Facoltà di Giurisprudenza. Università degli Studi di Catanzaro “Magna Græcia”, n. 34), Giappichelli ed., Torino, 2008, pp. 295
Nr. 1/2009FRANCESCO ZANCHINI DI CASTIGLIONCHIO Ecumenismo e articolazione collegiale del primato nella Chiesa romana. Considerazioni de iure condendo sull’istituto patriarcale
Table of contents
1. Introduction - 2. The perennial validity of St Thomas' doctrine of natural law. The philosophy of being and the functionality of law to human needs - 3. The science of law as the 'experience' of homo ethicus and homo faber. Moral philosophy, a sure point of contact with legal science - 4. Law, the science of organising human relations resulting from the readiness to subject learned knowledge to the critical scrutiny of the intellect (sinderesis). The theory of sources: the dictamen of the 'imminent law' and the 'eternal law'. The explication of natural law in human rights - 5. Opportunity to add the ontological branch to the 'Tree of Porphyry'. Necessity of the metaphysical affirmation on the new technological frontiers of law - 6. The anthropological dimension of law: the optimistic ontology regarding the status of the person, atheism and the primacy of the spirit - 7. The philosophy-law relationship: the need to ground the speculative moment of law on the plane of ontological realism - 8. The history-law relationship: the 'manuductio' or 'historia salutis' - 9. The dialectic-law relationship - 10. The aesthetics-law relationship, i.e. law as a creative technique akin to art - 11. The ethics-law relationship: the three 'prime laws' of ethics; the Thomist doctrine of the actus essendi and the links with the consensus - 12. The condicio libertatis in comparative perspective with state rights. The auctoritas as "service" in the Church - 13. Assonances of Philosophical Anthropology with the universal magisterium of the Church, from Vatican Council II to the "anthropological" encyclicals of John Paul II - 14. In particular: Bogliolo's radical convergences with the elaboration of the Wojtylian "Fides et Ratio". Substantial points of contact with the thought of the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - 15. The purely modern existential perspective of man and his 'Copernican revolution'. The overturning of Thomist dualism and the proposition of the original formula: "Theologia ancilla philosophiae" - 16. Conclusions on the philosophical reading of law in Bogliolo: a human science to guarantee man's spiritual freedom. The exclusive investigation interest in the public and international law of states favouring the human condition
Keywords
Theology; philosophy; Luigi Bogliolo; anthropology; freedom; authority