This articles focuses on a significant change to the curriculum in “ethics” (moral philosophy) in the University of Naples, superintended by Celestino Galiani, the rector of the university (1732–53), and Antonio Genovesi, Galiani's protégé and the university's professor of ethics (1746–54). The article contends that Galiani's and Genovesi's sympathies lay with the form of “modern natural law” pioneered by Hugo Grotius and his followers in Northern Europe. The transformation of curricular ethics in Protestant contexts had stemmed from an anxiety about its relevance in the face of moral skepticism. The article shows how this anxiety affected a Catholic context, and it responds to John Robertson's contention that Giambattista Vico's use of “sacred history” in his Scienza nuova (1725, revised 1730, 1744) typified a search among Catholics for an alternative to “scholastic natural law,” when the latter was found insufficiently to explain the sources of human sociability.

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那不勒斯大学的自然法和伦理学教授，1703-1769

本文重点关注那不勒斯大学“伦理”（道德哲学）课程的重大变化，由该大学校长（1732-53 年）塞莱斯蒂诺·加利亚尼（Celestino Galiani）和加利亚尼的门徒兼该校教授安东尼奥·热诺维西（Antonio Genovesi）监督伦理学（1746-54）。文章认为，加利亚尼和热诺维西的同情在于由雨果格老秀斯及其在北欧的追随者开创的“现代自然法”的形式。新教背景下课程伦理学的转变源于在面对道德怀疑时对其相关性的焦虑。这篇文章展示了这种焦虑如何影响了天主教的背景，并回应了约翰·罗伯逊的论点，即詹巴蒂斯塔·维科在他的著作中使用了“神圣的历史”。新科学（1725 年，1730 年修订，1744 年）代表了天主教徒寻找“经院自然法”的替代方案，当时发现后者不足以解释人类社交性的来源。