Natural law : the scientific ways of treating natural law, its place in moral philosophy, and its relation to the positive sciences of law / G.W.F. Hegel ; translated by T.M. Knox ; introduction by H.B. Acton ; foreword by John R. Silber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Contributor:

Knox, T. M.

Acton, H. B.

Silber, John, 1926-2012.

Series:

Works in continental philosophy

Standardized Title:

Über die wissenschaftlichen Behandlungsarten des Naturrechts. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the central problems in the history of moral and political philosophy since antiquity has been to explain how human society and its civil institutions came into being. In attempting to solve this problem philosophers developed the idea of natural law, which for many centuries was used to describe the system of fundamental, rational principles presumed universally to govern human behavior in society. By the eighteenth century the doctrine of natural law had engendered the related doctrine of natural rights, which gained reinforcement most famously in the American and French revolutions. According to this view, human society arose through the association of individuals who might have chosen to live alone in scattered isolation and who, in coming together, were regarded as entering into a social contract.In this important early essay, first published in English in this definitive translation in 1975 and now returned to print, Hegel utterly rejects the notion that society is purposely formed by voluntary association. Indeed, he goes further than this, asserting in effect that the laws brought about in various countries in response to force, accident, and deliberation are far more fundamental than any law of nature supposed to be valid always and everywhere. In expounding his view Hegel not only dispenses with the empiricist explanations of Hobbes, Hume, and others but also, at the heart of this work, offers an extended critique of the so-called formalist positions of Kant and Fichte.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Translator's Note

The Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law, Its Place in Moral Philosophy, and Its Relation to the Positive Sciences of Law

Index

Notes:

Published originally under the title: Über die wissenschaftlichen Behandlungsarten des Naturrechts, seine Stelle in der Praktischen philosophie, und sein Verhältniss zu den positiven Rechtswissenschaften.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613210739

9781283210737

1283210738

9780812200256

081220025X

OCLC:

759158176