La coscienza disubbidiente: ragioni, tutele e limiti

This study follows four main guide lines: a reconstruction of the moral idea of conscience and its juridical protection, through the liberty of conscience and the conscientious objection as legal rights; an overview on the relations between conscientious objection, civil disobedience and right of resistance,focusing on the political interpretations of conscientious objection given by Anna Harendt, John Rawls and Joseph Raz; a general theory of the right of conscientious objection, meant to give its structure, logic and limits of application; a detailed analysis of conscientious objection in the Italian juridical context (voluntary interruption of pregnancy, medically assisted procreation and animal experimentation) and a dialectic approach to the new possible requests of objection.