Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of Nations in the 16th-17th Centuries

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-49853-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

Reihe: History of European Political and Constitutional Thought

Often considered a secularizing force in the rise of the nation state, natural law was also invoked in defence of confessional states. The fourteen chapters in this volume show how religious and secularizing approaches to natural and biblical law interacted and combined as early modern states navigated the fallout from the Reformation. From this new perspective, the volume revisits questions of political legitimacy, civic and ecclesiastical authority, societal stability, conceptions of the common good, liberalism’s value pluralism (and its pretence), toleration and the lingering humanist project of determining “who are we” – issues that were as important then as they are now.

Contributors are: Dominique Bauer, Thomas Behme, Hans Blom, Jirí Chotaš, Alberto Clerici, Stefanie Ertz, Arthur Eyffinger, Heikki Haara, Mads Langballe Jensen, Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Denis Ramelet, József Simon, and Markus M. Totzeck.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Blom, Hans W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Hans W. Blom, Ph.D. (1995), Utrecht University, taught history of political thought at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and publishes books and articles on Dutch political thought in the seventeenth century. He is editor-in-chief of Grotiana.