Christian Thomasius
Thomasius, Christian
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Essays on Church, State, and Politics
by Christian Thomasius
/ Learn MoreThe works found in Essays on Church, State, and Politics, which originated as disputations, theses, and pamphlets, were direct interventions in the unresolved issue of the political role of religion in Brandenburg-Prussia, a state in which a Calvinist dynasty ruled over a largely Lutheran population and nobility as well as a significant Catholic minority. Christian Thomasius (1655–1728) was a German…
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Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, with Selections from Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations
by Christian Thomasius
/ Learn MoreChristian Thomasius’s natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke’s in England. First published in 1688, Thomasius’s Institutiones jurisprudentiae divinae (Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence) attempted to draw a clear distinction between natural and revealed law and to emphasize that human reason was able to know…
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