
Giovanni GiorginiUniversity of Bologna | UNIBO · Department of Political and Social Sciences DSPS
Giovanni Giorgini
Doctor of Philosophy
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An examination of Aristotle's criticism of some features of Plato's perfect city, notably the notion of communion of goods in the Republic. The conclusion is about Martha Nussbaum's provocative idea that Aristotle is a social-democrat thinker.
An investigation of the origin of democracy in ancient Athens, in the wake of Paul Cartledge's work
This essay examines the notion of procedural justice elaborated by the British philosopher Stuart Hampshire. It reviews Hampshire’s intellectual biography, showing the influence of Aristotle and Spinoza on the development of his thought. From Aristotle Hampshire derived the idea that moral theory should focus on the problems of moral agents and the...
Despite the increasing concern for the issue of respect for persons displayed over the last decades by political philosophers, human-right thinkers, social and ethical theorists, a comprehensive treatment of the problem at stake from a historical-philosophical perspective is conspicuously absent. The present collection of essays aims to contribute...
This essay contends that the idea of respect for persons finds its roots in the culture and history of Archaic Greece. I suggest that the idea of respect retains an aristocratic flavor, even when the historic-political evolutions leading to the creation of Greek democracy appear to set the basis for equality of treatment before the law (isonomia)....
Liberalism is a political doctrine as well as a system of beliefs and values centered on a specific view of the human being conceived as free and rational and endowed by nature with certain rights; a political doctrine which is amenable to be translated into laws and institutions (the liberal state). This entry examines the conceptual and linguisti...
Melissa Lane’s examination of the origin of what we are accustomed to call “politics” in the West has many merits that can hardly be fully accounted for in a short review. In a field where there are many competitors, the first merit is the originality of its perspective: Lane has been able to write a book that appeals both to the specialized reader...
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of Cicero's writings or his historical significance as an example in politics and in rhetoric for Italian Humanist and Renaissance culture. Machiavelli, well-educated in the classics, drew from Cicero the inspiration for embarking on a project of education of a new ruling class: Machiavelli's "princip...
It is interesting to notice that in his History of Greece George Grote examined the role of the sophists, together with the rest of the intellectual development of the fifth century, as a way to explain what he considered an "event of paramount interest", namely the trial and condemnation of Socrates. He was interested in both the intellectual and...
Machiavelli's Prince circulated widely in manuscript form in Italy way before its publication in 1532. Its reception was mixed from the start: some readers found in it a frank, sometimes ironic, description for the benefit of the people of the evil means used by bad rulers; others read in it evil recommendations to tyrants to help them maintain the...
In this chapter, I wish to examine John Stuart Mill’s concept of liberty as it emerges especially from On Liberty (1859) in the light of Isaiah Berlin’s and Quentin Skinner’s interpretations. Mill’s view of liberty as absence of constraints in self-regarding actions has been hailed by Berlin as the quintessential notion of “negative liberty” (an ex...
The revival of Plato's philosophy in the nineteenth century presents many interesting features. It has become typical to contrast the 'Idealist' Plato portrayed by the don of Greek studies and introducer of Hegel into England, Benjamin Jowett, with the 'Sceptic' Plato presented by the Radical philosophers John Stuart Mill and George Grote. Notwiths...
Contrary to the common interpretation, Machiavelli's notion of tyranny is quite elusive, for it is not based on moral or legal considerations. Machiavelli does not obliterate the difference between tyranny and principality, but he judges regimes and political behaviour according to the circumstances and to the end pursued by the statesman. His majo...