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Which works and tenets of early modern natural law reached East-Central Europe, and how? How was it received, what influence did it have? And how did theorists and users of natural law in East- Central Europe enrich the pan-European discourse? This volume is pioneering in two ways; it draws the east of the Empire and its borderlands into the study of natural law, and it adds natural law to the practical discourse of this region. Drawing on a large amount of previously neglected printed or handwritten sources, the authors highlight the impact that Grotius, Pufendorf, Heineccius and others exerted on the teaching of politics and moral philosophy as well as on policies regarding public law, codification praxis, or religious toleration. Contributors are: Péter Balázs, Ivo Cerman, Karin Friedrich, Gábor Gángó, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Knud Haakonssen, Steffen Huber, Borbála Lovas, Martin P. Schennach, and József Simon.

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Author:   Gábor Gángó
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   5
Weight:   0.831kg
ISBN:  

9789004545823

ISBN 10:   9004545824
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   27 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents Preface  Gábor Gángó and Knud Haakonssen Notes on Contributors Part 1: Poland-Lithuania 1 Natural Law in Polish and Lithuanian Sources: A Comparative Perspective  Steffen Huber 2 The Influence of Natural Law on the Discourse of Toleration in Seventeenth-Century Poland-Lithuania  Karin Friedrich 3 Why Was the Political Discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Nobility so Weakly Influenced by Natural Law?  Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz 4 Ernst König and the Teaching of Natural Law at the Academic Gymnasia of Royal Prussia  Gábor Gángó Part 2: The Austrian Empire 5 Natural Law in Austrian and Hungarian Science of Public Law in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: A Comparison  Martin P. Schennach 6 The Chair of Natural Law in Prague (1748–1775)  Ivo Cerman Part 3: Hungary and Transylvania 7 The Dream of Freedom, Peace and Order Natural and Divine Law in the Works of a Unitarian Bishop from Sixteenth-Century Transylvania  Borbála Lovas 8 Protestant Schooling and Natural Law in Transylvania and Hungary  Péter Balázs and Gábor Gángó 9 Moral Indifference and Hypothetical Moral Necessity in Miklós Apáti’s Vita triumphans civilis (1688)  József Simon 10 Political Psychology and Natural Law in Miklós Bethlen’s Preface to His Autobiography (1708)  József Simon Part 4: Russia 11 Strube de Piermont: The Passionate Natural Law in Russia  Ivo Cerman Index of Persons Index of Places Index of Subjects

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Gábor Gángó (Ph.D. literary studies 1997, philosophy 2004, Budapest) is scientific advisor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, and Associated Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. His focus of research encompasses Early-Modern intellectual history (G. W. Leibniz and J. Chr. v. Boineburg), and East-Central European history of culture and philosophy from 17th-century natural law to 20th-century cultural modernism. His publications include Die Bibliothek von József Eötvös (Budapest, 1996) and Marxismo, cultura, comunicación: De Kant y Fichte a Lukács y Benjamin (Buenos Aires, 2009).

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