Sulle ‘radici del diritto’, verso una sua fondazione retorica

The relational and trustful conception of law proposed by the author highlights, in the opinion of the commentators, the essential link between law, democracy, trust and persuasion. This paper focuses on these intersections and states explicitly the points of contact with a rhetorical perspective of law, arguing that Aristotelian defence of Rhetoric serves to defend a precise model of polis, of man and law, against the vision of sophistry, which is one of the sign of the modern ‘verticalist’ conception of relationship.