Gottfried Achenwall – författare

As the first translation into any modern language of Achenwall’s Ius naturae, from the 1763 edition used by Immanuel Kant, this open access book is an essential work for students and Kant scholars. For over twenty years, Kant used this book as the basis for his lectures on natural law. It has influenced his legal and political philosophy, as well as his ethics, and is indispensable for understanding Kant’s Feyerabend Lectures on Natural Law and his Metaphysics of Morals.Achenwall’s Ius naturae focuses on the fundamental principles of legal and political philosophy. It first discusses the natural rights and obligations pertaining to the relations of humans independently of their membership in particular communities, and then discusses those pertaining to the family, the state, and international relations.Articulating his theory with clear definitions, precise distinctions, and instructive comparisons with the work of Grotius, Hobbes, Pufendorf, Wolff, and others, Achenwall offers a lucid account that fits squarely in the natural law tradition. His handbook is of interest to scholars of natural law, social contract theory, and the history of political theory more generally.This is a complete English translation of both volumes of the 1763 edition. The volume also includes an Introduction by eminent Kant scholar Paul Guyer, comparing Achenwall’s theory to the legal and political philosophy of Kant’s Doctrine of Right. Moreover, the volume features a concordance correlating the Ius naturae to Kant’s Feyerabend Lectures on Natural Law.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Dutch Research Council.

As the first translation into any modern language of Achenwall’s Ius naturae, from the 1763 edition used by Immanuel Kant, this open access book is an essential work for students and Kant scholars. For over twenty years, Kant used this book as the basis for his lectures on natural law. It has influenced his legal and political philosophy, as well as his ethics, and is indispensable for understanding Kant’s Feyerabend Lectures on Natural Law and his Metaphysics of Morals.Achenwall’s Ius naturae focuses on the fundamental principles of legal and political philosophy. It first discusses the natural rights and obligations pertaining to the relations of humans independently of their membership in particular communities, and then discusses those pertaining to the family, the state, and international relations.Articulating his theory with clear definitions, precise distinctions, and instructive comparisons with the work of Grotius, Hobbes, Pufendorf, Wolff, and others, Achenwall offers a lucid account that fits squarely in the natural law tradition. His handbook is of interest to scholars of natural law, social contract theory, and the history of political theory more generally.This is a complete English translation of both volumes of the 1763 edition. The volume also includes an Introduction by eminent Kant scholar Paul Guyer, comparing Achenwall’s theory to the legal and political philosophy of Kant’s Doctrine of Right. Moreover, the volume features a concordance correlating the Ius naturae to Kant’s Feyerabend Lectures on Natural Law.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Dutch Research Council.

Benjamin Franklins Darstellung der amerikanischen Kolonien zehn Jahre vor der Revolution ist ein transatlantischer Glücksfall.Im Juli 1766 kam Benjamin Franklin für eine Woche nach Göttingen, inmitten der ersten tiefen Krise zwischen Großbritannien und seinen amerikanischen Kolonien. Der Repräsentant einer neuen, selbstbewussten amerikanischen Intellektualität begegnete hier führenden Köpfen eines aufgeklärten Rechts-, Gesellschafts- und Staatsdenkens, darunter Gottfried Achenwall, Mitbegründer der modernen Staatswissenschaften. Aus seinen ausführlichen Gesprächen mit Franklin und von ihm autorisiert, stellte er eine Schrift zusammen, die ein kritisches Bild der Kolonien ergibt – fast auf den Tag genau zehn Jahre vor dem Ausbruch der Amerikanischen Revolution.Franklins und Achenwalls "Anmerkungen über Nordamerika", zunächst als Artikelserie und dann als Buch veröffentlicht, werden in diesem Band erstmals mit ausführlichen Kommentaren neu herausgegeben. Die Edition macht einen Glücksfall des amerikanisch-deutschen Austausches im Geist der politischen Aufklärung zugänglich."Was uns Fränklin damals sagte, konnte man beynahe als eine vollständige Weissagung von den nachher erfolgten wichtigen Begebenheiten in jenem Welttheile ansehen."Johann Stephan Pütter