Title: The philosophy of law in historical perspective /
Authors: Friedrich, Carl J.
Date: 1963
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Physical description: xii, 296 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC classification: K
Contents: Introduction -- Law as the will of God : the heritage of the Old Testament -- Law as participation in the idea of justice : Plato and Aristotle -- Law as the expression of the laws of human nature : the stoics and Roman natural law -- Law as order and peace of the community of love : St. Augustine -- Law as the mirror and part of the divine world order : Thomas Aquinas and the scholastics -- Law as historical fact : the humanists -- Statutory law against natural law : the doctrine of sovereignty in Bodin, Althusius, and Grotius -- The English constitutional tradition : Sir Thomas Smith and Richard Hooker -- Common law against natural law : James I, Edward Coke, and Francis Bacon -- Law as command : Hobbes and the utilitarians -- Law as the basic law of the constitution : Locke and Montesquieu -- Law as the expression of "pure reason" : from Spinoza to Wolff -- Law as the expression of the general will : Rousseau and Kant Law as the expression of the spirit : Hegel and the historical school -- Law as class ideology : Marx and Engels -- Philosophical liberalism : Ihering and Stammler -- The decline of legal philosophy : relativists, formalists, and skeptics -- The revival of natural law in Europe and America -- Justice, equality, and the common man -- Law, authority, and legitimacy -- Law and order : the problem of the breach of law -- Constitutional law as the basis of the legal system -- Peace and the world community of law -- Law and history (from Vanderbilt Law Review, October, 1961) -- Remarks on Llewellyn's view of law, official behavior, and political behavior (from Political Science Quarterly, September, 1935)
Notes: "An English version of Die Philosophie des Rechts in historischer Perspektive." Includes indexes
Subject headings (LCSH): Jurisprudence--History.; Law--Philosophy--History