Giorgio Del Vecchio

Background

Giorgio Del Vecchio was born on August 26, 1878, in Bologna, Italy. He was a son of Giulio Vecchio and Ida (Cavalieri) Del Vecchio.

Education

Giorgio Del Vecchio studied at The Free University of Berlin and Sapienza University of Rome. He received a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Genoa in 1900.

Career

Giorgio Del Vecchio started his career as a professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Ferrara in 1904. He held the same post at the University of Sassari, Messina and Bologna. In 1920, Del Vecchio started to work as a professor at the Sapienza University of Rome. He held this post until 1944. He also served as Rector at the Sapienza University of Rome from 1925 to 1927 and as Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1930 to 1938. Del Vecchio went back to teaching in 1947 and worked as a professor until 1953.

Giorgio Del Vecchio published his first book The Legal Sense in 1902. Later he wrote such books as Lessons Philosophy of Law, History of the Philosophy of Right and On General Principles of Law. Del Vecchio also was a founder and director of the International Journal of Philosophy of Law.

Achievements

• Giorgio Del Vecchio was an Italian educator, philosopher and writer who was famous for his books The Concept of Law and On General Principles of Law. His books are used as a reference in many colleges and universities.
  
  

Works

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  • The Formal Bases of Law 1914

Politics

Giorgio Del Vecchio joined the fascist movement when it arose because he saw it as a defense against Bolshevism. He did hope, mistakenly, that the fascist "strong state" might realize the "ethical state" that, by harmonizing individual freedoms, would enhance individual personality.

Views

Giorgio Del Vecchio's main position has been described as neo-Kantian idealism and as humanist ethical idealism. He said that the thinking subject is necessarily conscious of the other, not merely as an object, but as itself a subject. That is why it is possible to deduce for the mutual relations of subjects not merely a logical form but also an ideal content of justice based on respect for personality. Del Vecchio believed that the idea of justice is a necessary aspect of consciousness.

Membership

Giorgio Del Vecchio was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Interests

• Ethics, philosophy of law, political philosophy

Connections

Giorgio Del Vecchio married Tina Valabrega on March 30, 1930.

Father:

Giulio Vecchio

Mother:

Ida Cavalieri

Wife:

Tina Valabrega