Rights, the Distribution of Wealth, and Happiness: Gaetano Filangieri's Constitutional Ideal of Justice.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Simon, Fabrizio
- Source
- History of Political Economy; Jun2018, Vol. 50 Issue 2, p373-401, 29p
- Subject
- DISTRIBUTIVE justice
WEALTH
HAPPINESS
CONSTITUTIONALISM
HEDONISM
CONSTITUTIONAL reform
POWER (Social sciences)
- Language
- ISSN
- 00182702
The article discusses Gaetano Filangieri's constitutional ideal of distributive justice which proposes the need for equable distribution of wealth to achieve happiness of the nation. Topics discussed are the constitutionalism of Filangieri which considers individuals as rational beings, inspired by hedonism and driven by the love for power, idea of distributive justice proposed by Filangieri in his work "La Scienza della Legislazione," and reforms needed to make the model society.