Rights of nature, nature without rights. The Roman implicits of modern thought

Cicero observed that " by the work of our hands, we try to create, in nature, like a second nature ".
Drawing on the legal, literary and philosophical history of Antiquity, this year's lecture explores the resources and limits of the Roman tradition in meeting the challenges of a legal transition that is essential to the ecological transition. Understanding, through their very thinking, how the Romans apprehended their relationship with the world, which was fundamentally anthropocentric, will enable us to become aware of the sediments and implicit elements left by this ancient culture in today's thinking.