Filangieri, Franklin and the right to the pursuit of happiness
Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Romina Amicolo
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/49
Language Italian Pages 9 P. 125-133 File size 94 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2014-049010
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The relationship between Filangieri and Franklin points out a double political influence: on the one hand, Jefferson’s political and social thought influenced Filangieri’s work The science of legislation; on the other, the Neapolitan Philosopher’s way of thinking contributed to the political and legal foundations of the United States of America. The decline of «abthe right to the pursuit of happiness» was not caused by the excessive subjectivity of happiness and its lack of fixity and certainty. In fact, the disappearance of the right to the pursuit of happiness has been a consequence of the reduction of the «abcivil society» in a «commercial society». This way, economics lost its ‘civil’ characterization
Romina Amicolo, Filangieri, Franklin e il diritto alla felicità in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 49/2014, pp 125-133, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2014-049010