Early Modern Natural Law in East-Central Europe

Gábor Gángó (Ph.D. literary studies 1997, philosophy 2004, Budapest) is scientific advisor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, and Associated Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. His focus of research encompasses Early-Modern intellectual history (G. W. Leibniz and J. Chr. v. Boineburg), and East-Central European history of culture and philosophy from 17th-century natural law to 20th-century cultural modernism. His publications include Die Bibliothek von József Eötvös (Budapest, 1996) and Marxismo, cultura, comunicación: De Kant y Fichte a Lukács y Benjamin (Buenos Aires, 2009).

Contents



Preface

 Gábor Gángó and Knud Haakonssen



Notes on Contributors



Part 1: Poland-Lithuania

1 Natural Law in Polish and Lithuanian Sources: A Comparative Perspective

 Steffen Huber



2 The Influence of Natural Law on the Discourse of Toleration in Seventeenth-Century Poland-Lithuania

 Karin Friedrich



3 Why Was the Political Discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Nobility so Weakly Influenced by Natural Law?

 Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz



4 Ernst König and the Teaching of Natural Law at the Academic Gymnasia of Royal Prussia

 Gábor Gángó



Part 2: The Austrian Empire

5 Natural Law in Austrian and Hungarian Science of Public Law in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: A Comparison

 Martin P. Schennach



6 The Chair of Natural Law in Prague (1748–1775)

 Ivo Cerman



Part 3: Hungary and Transylvania

7 The Dream of Freedom, Peace and Order

Natural and Divine Law in the Works of a Unitarian Bishop from Sixteenth-Century Transylvania

 Borbála Lovas



8 Protestant Schooling and Natural Law in Transylvania and Hungary

 Péter Balázs and Gábor Gángó



9 Moral Indifference and Hypothetical Moral Necessity in Miklós Apáti’s Vita triumphans civilis (1688)

 József Simon



10 Political Psychology and Natural Law in Miklós Bethlen’s Preface to His Autobiography (1708)

 József Simon



Part 4: Russia

11 Strube de Piermont: The Passionate Natural Law in Russia

 Ivo Cerman



Index of Persons

Index of Places

Index of Subjects