Francesco D'Agostino

Francesco D'Agostino (9 February 1946 – 3 May 2022) was an Italian jurist, who specialised in philosophy of law and bioethics.

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

He began as professor in 1974

D'Agostino presided over the Union of Italian Catholic Jurists

Additionally, he authored more than three hundred publications, including many monographs. newspapers like Avvenire and L'Osservatore Romano.

Personal and legal stances D'Agostino commented on euthanasia, ostensibly opposing its usage for terminally ill patients.

He 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".

Furthermore, he opposed divorce, and particularly, homosexuality. He argued that homosexuality is "a problem".

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".

La bioéthique dans la perspective de la philosophie du droit, 2005 Introduzione alla biopolitica. Dodici voci fondamentali, 2009.

Awards III Premio Internazionale "Mons. Pompeo Sarnelli" (2006). Western Prize for Bioethics, Jesi (2009). Saint Benedict Prize of the Sublacense Foundation.