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The moral person of the state : Pufendorf, sovereignty and composite polities /

"This is the first detailed study in any language of the single most influential theory of the modern state: Samuel von Pufendorf's account of the state as a 'moral person'. Ben Holland reconstructs the theological and political contexts in and for which Pufendorf conceived of th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holland, Ben, 1982-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Bodies, Souls, Persons, States ; Part I ; 1 The Constitution of the Free Person ; I. Molina and Suárez on Free Will.
  • II. The Immediate Context: The Controversy de auxiliis III. The Broader Context: The Society of Jesus and the Sacrament of Penance ; (i) The Mission of Confession ; (ii) Renaissance Humanism and Probability ; (iii) Rule Sixty-Five in Canon Law ; (iv) The Language of dominium.
  • 2 The Constitution of the Person of the State I. Molinist Liberty and Lutheranism ; II. Pufendorf's Theology ; III. Pufendorf and Molinist Freedom ; IV. Pufendorf's Theory of Sovereignty ; V. Pufendorf on the Holy Roman Empire ; Part II.
  • 3 Continental Appropriations: The Moral Person of the State and the Law of Nations I. Wolff ; II. Vattel ; III. Kant ; 4 Atlantic Appropriations: Breaking and Making Composite Polities ; I. The Epoch of Two Pufendorfian Constitutions ; II. A Pufendorfian Revolution.
  • III. The Moral Person of the State and Facultative Sovereignty in the American Republic 5 Anglo-German Interpretations: The Moral Person of the State and the Legal Person of the State ; I. Gierke and Germanism ; II. Gierke and Romanism.