検索キーワード： 著者 "Cesare Beccaria" すべてのカテゴリー

Dive into Beccarias influential treatise, On Crimes and Punishments, a groundbreaking work that challenges the severity and irrationality of criminal penalties. It particularly criticizes torture and the death penalty. Regarded as the pinnacle of Enlightenment in Milan, this treatise profoundly influenced policy makers in Britain, America, and France. Included in this podcast is an anonymous commentary, believed to be by Voltaire, providing an enriching perspective on the text.

Una selezione di passi salienti fra le più conosciute opere filosofiche del XVII e XVIII secolo in Italia. Autori universalmente celebrati come pensatori...

Pubblicato nell'estate del 1764, "Dei delitti e delle pene" gettava con coraggio le basi dell'attuale organizzazione della giustizia, in contrasto con la Chiesa e la classe dirigente aristocratica. Separare il delitto dal peccato, volere una giustizia umana, rigorosa e non arbitraria, considerare i cittadini come individui liberi e uguali di fronte alla legge: tutto ciò non poteva non suscitare aspre e accese polemiche in ogni angolo d'Italia e d'Europa.

Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which condemns disproportionate and irrational penalties in general as well as torture and the death penalty, is said to mark the peak of Enlightenment in Milan. Its translations were widely read by statesmen and policy makers in Britain, America and France. This translation also features the anonymous commentary, attributed to Voltaire.

Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which condemns disproportionate and irrational penalties in general as well as torture and the death penalty, is said to mark the peak of Enlightenment in Milan. Its translations were widely read by statesmen and policy makers in Britain, America and France. This translation also features the anonymous commentary, attributed to Voltaire. - Summary by Carolin