Natural law and human dignity /
Ernst Bloch ; translated by Dennis J. Schmidt.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1986.
- xxx, 323 pages ; 24 cm.
Translation of: Naturrecht und menschliche Würde. Includes index.
Overly Used -- It Is a Third Who Decides -- 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 Reformation -- The Ideal According to Relative Natural Law: Justice form 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, Its Relation to Mathematical Construction and to Natural Religion -- 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 on 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