Drafting Dignity
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https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v44i.4337Parole chiave:
Dignità umana, libertà umana, soggettività, parentela, impatto del Rinascimento sulla storia costituzionaleAbstract
Italian Renaissance humanism released a European dynamic of dignity. Commonly, the history of human dignity is read in an ontological way, relying on an ‘inherent’ and ‘inviolable’ essence of human existence. This is due to legal prominence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and the German Basic Law 1949, both eager to ban any inhumane atrocities and discrimination. Reading the Italian masterminds of the quattrocento, and esp. Pico della Mirandola’s contemporaries Ficino, Manetti, Salutati, and Valla, reveals an argumentative turn away from scholastic deductions of ontological essences from the metaphysical nature of man, and highlights the relatedness of the human ‘drafting competence’ of what he wants himself to be. The Delphic ‘Know thyself’ (gnṓthi seautón) never referred to a solipsistic cognition of isolated individuals. Rather, it is only by the reciprocity of relations that man recognizes himself, ‘shapes and formats’ his personality, his language, his thinking, his actions, his environment, and thus, of course, his will. These terms of reciprocity lie at the heart of the following short contribution.
