Luigi Taparelli

Monsignor
Luigi Taparelli
SJ
Born(1793-11-24)24 November 1793
Turin, Piedmont-Sardinia
(present-day Italy)
Died21 September 1862(1862-09-21) (aged 68)
Rome, Papal States
(present-day Italy)
Education
Alma materUniversity of Turin
Philosophical work
Era19th century
Region
SchoolThomism
Traditionalism
InstitutionsOblates of the Virgin Mary
Society of Jesus
Main interestsReligion, sociology
Notable ideasSocial justice, subsidiarity

Luigi Taparelli SJ (born Prospero Taparelli d'Azeglio; 24 November 1793 – 2 September 1862) was an Italian scholar of the Society of Jesus and counter-revolutionary who coined the term social justice and elaborated the principles of subsidiarity as part of his natural law theory of just social order. He was the brother of the Italian statesman Massimo d'Azeglio.

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