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Early modern natural law in East-Central Europe / edited by Gábor Gángó.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early Modern Natural Law: Studies and Sources Series
- Early Modern Natural Law: Studies and Sources Series ; v.5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Europe, Eastern--17th century--Congresses.
- Law.
- Law--Europe, Eastern--18th century--Congresses.
- Natural law--History--17th century--Congresses.
- Natural law.
- Natural law--History--18th century--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (425 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2023]
- Summary:
- This innovative book presents the creative adaptation of early-modern natural law theories in teaching and political discourse in Bohemia, Austria, Poland-Lithuania, Hungary, Transylvania, and Russia.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Part 1: Poland-Lithuania
- Chapter 1. Natural Law in Polish and Lithuanian Sources: A Comparative Perspective
- Chapter 2. The Influence of Natural Law on the Discourse of Toleration in Seventeenth-Century Poland-Lithuania
- Chapter 3. Why Was the Political Discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Nobility so Weakly Influenced by Natural Law?
- Chapter 4. Ernst König and the Teaching of Natural Law at the Academic Gymnasia of Royal Prussia
- Part 2: The Austrian Empire
- Chapter 5. Natural Law in Austrian and Hungarian Science of Public Law in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: A Comparison
- Chapter 6. The Chair of Natural Law in Prague (1748-1775)
- Part 3: Hungary and Transylvania
- Chapter 7. The Dream of Freedom, Peace and Order
- Chapter 8. Protestant Schooling and Natural Law in Transylvania and Hungary
- Chapter 9. Moral Indifference and Hypothetical Moral Necessity in Miklós Apáti's Vita triumphans civilis (1688)
- Chapter 10. Political Psychology and Natural Law in Miklós Bethlen's Preface to His Autobiography (1708)
- Part 4: Russia
- Chapter 11. Strube de Piermont: The Passionate Natural Law in Russia
- Index of Persons
- Index of Places
- Index of Subjects.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-54584-0
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