Prinzip und Prinzipienfrage in der Entwicklung des Modernen Naturrechts

English summary: Merio Scattola (1962-2015) is said to be one of the leading experts in the field of the history of European political thought. In his groundbreaking work Das Naturrecht vor dem Naturrecht (Before and After Natural Law) (1999) he had studied the emergence of natural law in Western culture, and this work, with its original analysis of the further development of Scattola's theories, provides the reader with a fundamental part of Scattola's academic legacy. Focusing on...
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English summary: Merio Scattola (1962-2015) is said to be one of the leading experts in the field of the history of European political thought. In his groundbreaking work Das Naturrecht vor dem Naturrecht (Before and After Natural Law) (1999) he had studied the emergence of natural law in Western culture, and this work, with its original analysis of the further development of Scattola's theories, provides the reader with a fundamental part of Scattola's academic legacy. Focusing on basic methodological issues, it reconstructs a second path of development up to and including the neo-Thomist natural law of the 19th century in addition to the development of the systematic theory of natural law. Due to his consistent treatment of the key term, principle, Scattola was able to discuss natural law thought in the modern era as a question of principles from a historical and theoretical perspective. German description: Merio Scattola (1962-2015) gilt als einer der besten Kenner der Geschichte des europaischen politischen Denkens. Hatte er in seinem wegweisenden Werk Das Naturrecht vor dem Naturrecht (1999) das Aufkommen des westlichen Naturrechts studiert, so liegt hier mit der originellen Analyse von dessen weiterer Entwicklung ein wesentlicher Teil des akademischen Vermachtnisses Scattolas vor. An methodologischen Grundfragen orientiert, rekonstruiert er neben der Entwicklung der systematischen Naturrechtslehre auch einen zweiten Entwicklungspfad bis hin zum neuthomistischen Naturrecht des 19. Jahrhunderts. Durch seine stringente Bearbeitung des Schlusselbegriffs des Prinzips gelingt es Scattola, das naturrechtliche Denken der Moderne als Prinzipienfrage historisch und theoretisch zu diskutieren.