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ABOUT THE BOOK (from the publisher)
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.
ABOUT THE EDITOR (from the Notes on Contributors)
Prof. Dr. Gábor Gángó studied history, literary studies (Ph.D. 1997), and philosophy (Ph.D. 2004) at ELTE Budapest University. He has been working at various universities, including the University of Vienna (Visiting Professor, 2000–2001), Pázmány Péter Catholic University Budapest (Full Professor, 2011–2022), and the University of Padua (Research Fellow, 2021–2023). He 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, Erfurt University. His historical and philosophical interest in East-Central Europe ranges from the intellectual history of the Early Modernity and the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire to variations of twentieth-century cultural modernism.
CONTENTS
Part 1 Poland-Lithuania
Part 1 Poland-Lithuania
Chapter 1: Natural Law in Polish and Lithuanian Sources: A Comparative Perspective (Steffen Huber)
Chapter 2: The Influence of Natural Law on the Discourse of Toleration in Seventeenth-Century Poland-Lithuania (Karin Friedrich)
Chapter 3: Why Was the Political Discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Nobility so Weakly Influenced by Natural Law? (Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz)
Chapter 4: Ernst König and the Teaching of Natural Law at the Academic Gymnasia of Royal Prussia (Gábor Gángó)
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 (Martin P. Schennach)
Chapter 6: The Chair of Natural Law in Prague (1748–1775) (Ivo Cerman)
Part 3 Hungary and Transylvania
Chapter 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)
Chapter 8: Protestant Schooling and Natural Law in Transylvania and Hungary (Péter Balázs, Gábor Gángó)
Chapter 9: Moral Indifference and Hypothetical Moral Necessity in Miklós Apáti’s Vita triumphans civilis (1688) (József Simon)
Chapter 10: Political Psychology and Natural Law in Miklós Bethlen’s Preface to His Autobiography (1708) (József Simon)
Part 4 Russia
Chapter 11: Strube de Piermont: The Passionate Natural Law in Russia (Ivo Cerman)
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