Natural law and human dignity. Translated by Dennis J. Schmidt

Bloch, Ernst, 1885-1977

Published by Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986

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Bloch, Ernst, 1885-1977. Natural law and human dignity. Translated by Dennis J. Schmidt. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986, xxx, 323pp. . 24 cm., very good dust-jacket lightly worn around edges and with a few scratches on front panel, very good olive green cloth, some light foxing on covers, previous owner's blindstamp and date on half-title page. Translation of: Naturrecht und menschliche Würde. Series: Studies in contemporary German social thought. - CONTENTS: Translator's introduction : In the spirit of Bloch -- Overly used -- It is a third who decides -- The so-called sense of justice -- The first opponents of institutions -- On the natural law of Epicurus and the Stoics -- Stoic doctrines and Roman law -- The relative natural law of Thomas Aquinas and of the Reformation -- The ideal according to relative natural law : justice from above -- Althaus, Hobbes, Grotius : rationalized natural law and the new edifice of the law -- Once again : rationalist natural law, its relation to mathematical construction and to natural religion -- Rousseau's social contract, the American Declaration of Independence, human rights -- Kant's and Fichte's natural law without nature : the A Priori Law of Reason -- On the passion of law within positive law (Kohlhaus and the seriousness of Minos) -- Anselm Feuerbach, Savigny : the fate of rational law in Schelling's darker nature -- Bachofen, Gaea-Themis, and natural law -- Confrontation : Gaea-Themis and its survival in the collective schools of natural law -- The Oath of the Styx, the ambiguous cosmos in Hegel's Philosophy of right -- The death and the semblance of life of a late-bourgeois natural law -- Aporias and the heritage of the Tricolor : liberty, equality, fraternity -- The Marxist distance to right and even to natural right ; the problem of a classless quintessence of "The upright path" in natural right -- Subjective, objective right (Facultas Agendi, Norma Agendi) in their bourgeois opposition and in their classless solution -- Right and morality in their separation (morality instead of natural law), classified according to their value -- Penal law, tragedy, and the real negation of crime -- The origin of the state, public law, Arcana Dominationis, and its opposite -- The nationalized God and the right to community -- Appendix : Christian Thomasius, a German scholar without misery. 9780262022217 ISBN 0262022214. Seller Inventory # 90157

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Title: Natural law and human dignity. Translated by...

Publisher: Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986

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