Séminaire: PG Monateri - Délit poltique de sorcellerie Angleterre XVI-XVII siècles - Jeudi 5 Mars 2015

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Le délit politique »,  nous avons le plaisir d’accueillir

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Pier Giuseppe Monateri

Professeur de droit privé comparé à l'Université de Turin

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Le délit politique de sorcellerie en Angleterre

sous Elisabeth 1ère et Jacques 1er

  

salle 7

105 bd Raspail

Jeudi 5 Mars 2015

15h à 17h

CENJ "Yan Thomas" - 105 Boulevard Raspail - 75006 PARIS - 01.53.63.51.68

Rational Angels. Understanding the Theological Background of Economic Rationality

In this paper the Author traces back the modern standard theory of economic rationality to the theological backgrond of the theory of Angels as rational decision makers developed by Christian Scholastics.

His main conclusion is that there is an identifiable theological background of modern economic theory of rationality, and that it is this theological dimension that can explain why this theory, so useful as it has been, is anyway based on ‘ontological’ but counterfactual assumptions.

The consciousness of this fact would imply the need for a revised and more complex 'economic ontology’: if rational decision theory is rooted in the ontology of angels, as it was developed by the western scholastics, it becomes obvious that the real problem is not, first of all, to contrast the theory with more empirical observations, derived from the actual behavior of economic agents, but to develop a different ontology, and to reframe, within it, a newer theory of rationality.

Law and Incarnation: Messianism as State of Exception

Riflessioni sul Messianesimo come Stato di Eccezione

In this paper, written in italian, Monateri tries to interpret Jesus teachings in the context of the beginning of a cosmic state of exception when, in accordance with traits of the Second Temple ideology, the final battle between God and his enemy is going to start.

In such a context the Law reincarnate itself into the figure/body of the Sovereign, the Lord, instead of being excarnated as it has been in the Book.

Thus the Lord as a nomos empsuchos (a living law) can suspend and renew the law.

Even the dramatic event of the Cross can be seen as the entrance by suffering of the Lord into the Enemy's realm and his coming back as a winner.

Author suggests that the models behind such packaging of ideas are Egyptian, and strongly connected with the royal political theology of Alexander the Great as a King and a Savior.

From this standpoint it was certainly Paul (and so the Church) and not James to be on the right side in interpreting Jesus teachings.

With the Event of the Cross the world entered into a permanent state of exception, but the outcome of the final battle has already been determined by that event.

As Ted Sorensen said once: war is something you win or loose in the Temple long before it is actually fought.

Published in the Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin