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1. Introduction

Francisco D'Agostino (born February 9, 1946) is an Italian jurist, who specialises in philosophy of law and bioethics.

2. Biography

D'Agostino graduated from the University of Rome in 1968 with a degree in jurisprudence[1]. He continued his legal and philosophical studies at the University of Bonn and University of Fribourg[2], before obtaining a doctorate in jurisprudence at the University of Catania[3]. He would hold professorial positions at the University of Catania until 1990.

He began as professor in 1974[1] at several Italian universities, namely the University of Salento[1], and University of Urbino[1], and was a visiting professor in France , Spain and the United States, notably in the New York University School of Law[4].

D'Agostino presides over the Union of Italian Catholic Jurists[1] and is the emeritus president of the National Committee of Bioethics of Italy. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life and a consultant for the Pontifical Council for the Family. Since 1988, he has been the head director for the International Magazine of Philosophy of Law and New Politics Studies (Rivista internazionale di filosofia del diritto) in Rome[5].

Additionally, the has authored more than three hundred publications, including many monographs[1]. D'Agostino is a frequent contributor to prominent bioethics publications[6], newspapers like Avvenire[7] and L'Osservatore Romano.

3. Personal and Legal Stances

D'Agostino has commented on euthanasia, ostensibly opposing its usage for terminally ill patients[8][9].

He has stated that "the right response to all tragic situations of chronic invalidating diseases and illnesses that inevitably lead to death does not consist in the interruption of treatment (of which euthanasia is an extreme form), but in the therapist's warm and compassionate closeness to the patient"[1].

Furthermore, he opposes divorce[10], and particularly, homosexuality. He has argued that homosexuality is "a problem"[11].

In 1999, D'Asgostino stated that "homosexual communication cannot have juridical recognition because it is not communication; or better and more precisely, it is not communication in the sense, the only sense, that can have relevance for the law"[11]. He characterises any argument for homosexual relationships in equality with those of heterosexual relationships as "objectively groundless", and that this is "all the jurist needs to regard the communicative nature of a homosexual relationship as juridically irrelevant and therefore as incapable of formalization"[11].

D'Agostino has stated that "gays are constitutively sterile" and "legalization of their existence [gives] homosexuals that interior balance from whose lack they so clearly suffer", arguments that continue to generate controversy.

4. Publications

  • La dignità degli ultimi giorni, 1998[12].
  • Elementos para una filosofía de la familia. Ediciones Rialp. 2002. ISBN 978-84-321-2811-0. http://books.google.es/books?id=HmqTI5M-GuUC. 
  • Filosofía de la familia. Ediciones Rialp. 2007. ISBN 978-84-321-3620-7. http://books.google.es/books?id=jDSldNVb9KMC. 
  • Bioética, estudios de filosofía del derecho. Ediciones Internacionales Universitarias. 2003. ISBN 978-84-8469-075-7. 
  • La bioéthique dans la perspective de la philosophie du droit, 2005[13]
  • Introduzione alla biopolitica. Dodici voci fondamentali, 2009.
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References

  1. "Francesco D'Agostino" (in it-IT). http://www.unige.it/centrint/unige03/bio_d_agostino.html. 
  2. "Francisco D'Agostino" (in it-IT). http://bioetica.governo.it/media/3153/dagostino-cv-breve.pdf. 
  3. Letelier Widow, Gonzalo (2009). "Lessons in theory of Law". Revista Chilena de Derecho 36 (1): 189–192. 
  4. Parisi, Francesco (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics: Volume 2: Private and Commercial Law. Oxford University press. ISBN 978-0-19-968420-5. 
  5. "Rivista internazionale di filosofia del diritto" (in fr-FR). 2019-08-09. https://www.cairn.info/revue-interdisciplinaire-d-etudes-juridiques-1988-2-page-57.htm#. 
  6. "Francesco D'Agostino" (in en-US). https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109705.html. 
  7. "Riserca Francisco D'Agostino". https://www.avvenire.it/search?q=Francesco%20D%27Agostino. 
  8. D'Agostino, Francisco (2017-03-30). "Non tutto è eutanasia. La storia chiede coraggio" (in it-IT). Avvenire. https://www.avvenire.it/opinioni/pagine/non-tutto-eutanasia-la-storia-chiede-coraggio. Retrieved 11 January 2020. 
  9. D'Agostino, Francisco (2017-08-14). "Il coraggio di fermare l'arroganza della tecnologia" (in it-IT). Avvenire. https://www.avvenire.it/opinioni/pagine/non-tutto-eutanasia-la-storia-chiede-coraggio. Retrieved 11 January 2020. 
  10. Quirk,Patrick (2002-01-12). Marriage, Divorce, and the Catholic Lawyer. Bond Law Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2002. p. 12. 
  11. D'Agostino, Francesco (1997-05-21). "Should the law recognize homosexual unions?". L'Osservatore Romano - Weekly Edition in English. p. 9. http://www.ewtn.com/library/HUMANITY/homo10.htm. Retrieved 10 January 2020. 
  12. Pieretti, Antonio (2000). "Review of La dignità degli ultimi giorni". Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 92 (3/4): 669–672. 
  13. Beauvais, Chantal (2006). "Review of La bioéthique dans la perspective de la philosophie du droit". Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique 39 (1): 213–214. doi:10.1017/S0008423906379991.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1017%2FS0008423906379991
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