Legal Thinking between Art and Mathematics

Note sul testo
The unique coincidence of Renaissance, Humanism, and Reformation fostered the adaptation of Galilei's mathematical method within the legaI realm. Due to the artistically communicated il stato-reference, the Bodinan focus on legislative primacy, the enriched legal interpretations by mos gallicus-minds, and the usus modernus-interest in locaI statutes' rational validity mathematics amounted to an epistemological key - also in law. According to the Quattrocento's new subjectivity an individual mathematical 'acquisition' of nature and philosophy set the tone for voluntary and legal self-formation beyond medieval canon restraints on traded (de Medici) wealth.

Note sull'Autrice
Ulrike Müßig, née Seif, full professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Passau (DE) and ERC Advanced Grantee (ReConFort, 2014-2018), teaches as visiting professor at the Universities of Paris I and Paris Il (FR), at Macerata (IT), Gdansk (PL), and Prague (CZ); she is connected to EUM by various contributions to the «Giornale di Storia Costituzionale».

Contents
1. Artificio: the Subject Invented by Art and the Specific Renaissance Naturalism
1.1. Raphael’s «School of Athens» and the Renaissance Iconography of the Aristotelian Ancient Philosophy of Being
1.2. Voluntaristically Constituted Urban Societies, the Aristotelian (Logical) Primacy of the Whole over the Parts, and the Need for a Secularised Ethics of will
1.3. The Novelty of the Humanists’ Argumentation and its Artistic Transformation
1.4. Summary of the 1st part: Artificio and the New Accentuation of the Possible

2. Natura: Mathematics as the Blueprint of Nature
2.1. Mathematics as the Language of Nature
2.2. Mathematisation of Philosophy
2.3. Mathematical ‘Art of Exchange’
2.4. Summary of the 2nd part: Natura and the Omens of the Later Cartesian Turn away from the Aristotelian Philosophy of Objects towards a Thinking Subject

3. Vita: Life Legally Explained
3.1. The Autonomous Legitimisation of the State (il stato) as a Public Exercise of Power without Transcendence
3.2. Neo-Aristotelian Empirical Interest in Public Affairs
3.3. Legal Humanism, mos gallicus jura docendi, and Law as the Logically Possible
3.4. The New Rationality of Morals and the Immediate Accessibility of the Lutheran Bible
3.5. Dürer’s Figurative Representation of the New Reformatory Publicity on an Equal Footing with Humanist and Reformatory Protagonists
3.6. Qualifying International Law as Natural Law
3.7. Summary of the 3rd part: Life Legally Explained and the Rational Justification of its Comprehensive Regulation

List of References

Note
Biblioteca del Giornale di Storia costituzionale 16
Collana diretta da Luigi Lacchè, Roberto Martucci, Luca Scuccimarra

On the cover: Andrea Pisano, Relief on the east side of the Campanile: 3. Geometry, 1337-1341, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence, by Courtesy of the Web Gallery of Art (https://www.wga.hu/), in detail: https://www.wga.hu/html_m/p/pisano1/andrea/2campani/3_east/east_up3.html