From the “vaghi concubiti” to the “matrimoni certi”: A Look at Vico and Rosmini

Abstract

The aim of the essay is to investigate the institution of marriage in the works of Giambattista Vico and Antonio Rosmini. Both authors, in fact, derive universal lessons by investigating particular historical societies. Even marriage, a historically varied institute, assumes in both Vico and Rosmini a universal ethical-legal value, to which the function is added that family plays with respect to the constitution of the civil order (against the background of the propulsive role of conflict).