Universal Right

Illustrated. Translated from Latin and Edited by Giorgio Pinton and Margaret Diehl
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-420-1243-1
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 104, 825 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1533 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Values in Italian Philosophy

This book is the first translation from Latin into English of the juridical writings of one of the greatest minds of the Enlightenment and one of the greatest figures in Italian philosophy. The complete text is fully annotated, supplied with an extensive introduction, completed by historical and biographical documents, and graced with evocative illustrations. Legal scholars, philosophers, historians, and political scientists throughout the world may now discover a classic by one of the world’s great jurists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Vico, Giambattista

Pinton, Giorgio A.

Diehl, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Alain Pons
Introduction by the Translators and Editors
The Mental Life of Giambattista Vico (An Assumed Chronology)
Summary of the Oration of 1719
Synopsis of Universal Right (July 1720)

BOOK ONE: The One Principle and the One End of Universal Right (September 1720)
Dedication to Francesco Ventura
Work’s Prologue
Notes to Work’s Prologue
Beginning
Notes to Beginning
Part One of Book One (Chapters 1-86): The Origin
Part Two of Book One (Chapters 87-166): The Circularity
Part Three of Book One (Chapters 167-222): The Consistency
Conclusion
Notes to The One Principle and the One End of Universal Right

BOOK TWO: The Constancy of the Jurist, That Is, The Guarding of Divine and Human Institutions [September 1721]
Dedication to Francesco Ventura
The Constancy of Philosophy and Philology
The Constancy of the Jurist
Part One of Book Two: The Constancy of Philosophy, That Is, The Guarding of Divine Institutions
Part Two of Book Two: The Constancy of Philology, That Is, The Guarding of Human Institutions
Conclusion of This Work
List of Clarissimorum Virorum Censurae
Notes to The Constancy of Philology

BOOK THREE: Notes and Dissertations [August 1722]
Dedication of the Notae to Giambattista Filomarino
Notes to Dedication
The Dissertations
The Background

Bibliography
About the Author
About the Translators and Editors
Index of Vico’s Marginal Notes
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) spent his entire life in Naples, where he taught at the University of Naples from 1699, the year he won the Chair of Rhetoric and Forensic Eloquence, to 1741, the year Gennaro Vico, his son, took over the duty of lecturer.

Giorgio Pinton earned his B.A. in philosophy from the Institute of Philosophy of Gallarate, Italy, 1955, and his Ph.D. in Renaissance and Reformation Studies from the Hartford Seminary Foundation in 1972. With the late Richard E. Weingart, he prepared The Logic of Divine Love: A Critical Analysis of the Soteriology of Peter Abailard (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1970). He taught at Laconia State School in New Hampshire, then philosophy at the University of Hartford from 1969 to 1976. Thereafter, having obtained a Master in Secondary Education from the University of Hartford, he taught within the Connecticut Correctional School District until his retirement in 1992. With Arthur W. Shippee, he translated Vico’s inaugural orations, a book published by Cornell University Press, in 1993, with the title On Humanistic Education, and Vico’s Institutiones Oratoriae, a book published by Editions Rodopi, B. V. in 1996, with the title The Art of Rhetoric. With Pierre Wolff, he translated The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius, A New Translation from the Authorized Latin Text, a book by A Triumph Classic, in 1998.

Margaret Diehl has a B.A. from Earlham College and a Master in Primary Education from the University of Hartford. She worked in New York City and Boston, teaching the unteachable. For twenty years, she taught English as a Second Language within the Connecticut Correctional School District. She retired from teaching in May 1998. However, she is continuing to direct the highly successful Drama Program: it consists of a selected group of prisoners, who, after having been properly trained, visit schools and other youth organizations, to give witness to young audiences that drugs and crime destroy happiness and satisfaction in life.