Natural law and human dignity

Translator's introduction : In the spirit of Bloch

Overly used

It is a third who decides

The so-called sense of justice

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 the Reformation

The ideal according to relative natural law : justice from 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 without nature : the A Priori Law of Reason

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 of 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

Appendix : Christian Thomasius, a German scholar without misery