Autor: Thomas Ahnert

George Turnbull’s eighteenth-century translation of A Methodical System of Universal Law was his major effort to convey continental natural law to Britain, thus making Heineccius’s natural jurisprude …

The 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 …

Christian 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 pu …

Christian Wolff’s The Law of Nations is a cornerstone of eighteenth-century thought. A treatise on the philosophy of human action, on the foundations of political communities, and on international la …

Christian 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 pu …

Die Aufklärung hat das Bewusstsein revolutioniert, indem sie es in die kantische Polarität von »Zeitalter der Aufklärung« und »aufgeklärtes Zeitalter« hineinspannte. Aufklärung meint einerseits eine …

In the European Enlightenments it was often argued that moral conduct rather than adherence to certain theological doctrines was the true measure of religious belief. Thomas Ahnert argues that this c …

Analysis of the close relationship between religion and secular learning in the works of one of the central figures of the early German Enlightenment, the jurist and philosopher Christian Thomasius ( …