Open AccessEquita' e reciprocita' fra Ancien Régime e societa' contemporanea
Author(s) -
Giovanni Levi
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
endoxa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.147
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2174-5676
pISSN - 1133-5351
DOI - 10.5944/endoxa.15.2002.5045
Subject(s) - ancien regime , reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , equity (law) , economic justice , distributive justice , sociology , humanities , law and economics , political science , law , social science , philosophy , politics
The principies of reciprocity as they opérate during the Anden Régime need to be un of an unequal but equitatíve society. The society was fair according to the principies of distributive justice: to everyone according to his social status. In this way, taking the concepts of equity and reciprocity as its starting point of discussion the author enquiries about the rising of the formally equalitarian modem societies.