The paper aims to examine some aspects of the legal philosophical theory of Marsilius of Padua contained in his main work, the Defensor Pacis, which have received less attention than the historical and political profiles, and the more classical themes of popular sovereignty and secularism. More specifically, it examines some passages of…
Taking as starting point the Multimedia Handbook of Philosophy of Law by Thomas Casadei and Gianfrancesco Zanetti, the author of the contribution analyses its methodological structure highlighting not only the characteristics that determine its completeness and originality in the legal-philosophical panorama, but also some conceptual nodes of the contemporary debate on law, rights and…
The essay addresses the complex relationship between freedom of conscience and juridical oaths in a European legal space that is increasingly diversified in the religious and cultural fields. It focuses, in particular, on two distinct problems: the religiosity of the oath form and the structure of the oath, examining them both in relation…
Today, surveillance perpetrated by a few invisible entities on a large number of citizens is a widespread practice. However, in the field of surveillance studies, this situation is perceived as a threat to the smooth functioning of democratic regimes. Through this paper, three paradigmatic figures of rings capable of granting invisibility will…
