Original scientific paper

FROM THE VIRTUE OF JUSTICE TO THE CONCEPT OF LEGAL SYSTEM: ON THE LEGAL/PHILOSOPHICAL MEANING SUUM CUIQUE TRIBUERE IN HOBBES AND KANT

Dieter Huening ; University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Abstract

The author distinguishes between the antiquity’s and Middle Ages’ teachings on natural law and justice as a virtue and the modern-age Hobbes’ theory of the prerequisites of the legal system. Hobbes’ theory identifies the prerequisites of the legal system and describes the institution of legal constraint which guarantees the rule of law. The author points to the central historical difference between these paradigms. Finally, the author traces the evolution of Hobbes’ paradigm in Kant’s philosophy of right.

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Hrčak ID:

32334

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/32334

Publication date:

3.9.1998.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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