Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Classical Liberalism: On Montesquieu's Critique of Hobbes

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Zuckert
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Classical Liberalism ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Social Theorist ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
International Encyclopedia ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Minor Character

Montesquieu is not often thought of as a significant natural law thinker. The article on natural law in theInternational Encyclopedia of the Social Sciencesdiscusses many theorists of the natural law, but Montesquieu is not among them. A valuable older survey of natural law theorizing by legal philosopher A. P. d'Entrèves cites the Frenchman but once, as a very minor character in a story with far more significant actors—Thomas Aquinas, Hugo Grotius, even Georg Hegel. A yet more comprehensive survey of the topic,Natural Law and Human Dignity, by French philosopher and social theorist Ernst Bloch, does not mention Montesquieu at all.

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

1969 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 1573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Cochran ◽  
David L. Sills
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Encyclopedia

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

Language ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 458
Author(s):  
Joshua A. Fishman ◽  
Joav Findling ◽  
David L. Sills
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Encyclopedia

Natural Law and Mechanical Engineering

1984 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
P. C. Haarhoff
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
The Social

The first technological revolution, in the fourth millennium BC, was followed by immense social progress. The second revolution, which is now taking place, could lead to an even greater development in the human sciences, by setting men free from their daily struggle for existence while simultaneously exacting high social standards. Natural law - the “marriage between the ways of heaven and the ways of earth” of the Chinese - represents a route to such progress. In natural science and technology, natural law demands that conclusions be based on observation rather than speculation. The social sciences would do well to follow this example.

Legal philosophy of Rudolf Stammler

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Николай Шавеко ◽  
Nikolai Shaveko
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Law ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Law And Science ◽  
Outstanding Representative

The monograph is devoted to the identification of the main provisions and features of the philosophy of law R. Stammler, definition of communication proposed by R. Stammler legal doctrine with the preceding and contemporary legal doctrines and its significance for the subsequent development of the theory and philosophy of law. R. Stammler – founder and outstanding representative neokantianism philosophy of law and science flow "revived" natural law, speaking with their own conception of the methodology of the social Sciences and played a key role in the development of natural law doctrine, introducing into science the concept of "proper law" (natural law with changing content) and suggesting the formula of the legal ideal "society of freely wanting people". In addition, Mr. stammler one of the first made deeply researched academic critique of Marxism and anarchism. His teaching on the law, jurisprudence and legal ideal of R. stammler had a significant impact on the development of Russian philosophy of law.

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