Article ID: CBB001211011

Rational Natural Law and German Sociology: Hobbes, Locke and Tönnies (2011)

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While the roots of modern German sociology are often traced back to historicism, the importance of rational natural law in the inception of the founding work of German sociology, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft by Ferdinand Tönnies, intended as a `creative synthesis' between rational natural law and romantic historicism, should not be overlooked. We show how in his earliest scholarly work on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke the shift in the meaning of the two concepts `Gemeinschaft' and `Gesellschaft' represents a departure from early liberal enlightenment to a Weltanschauung marked by romantic authors such as Fichte, Novalis and Haller, by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Spencer and Marx, notwithstanding Tönnies' adherence to the political and social values of a liberal civil society.

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Authors & Contributors
Gori, Pietro
Koganzon, Rita
Rumore, Paola
Silva, Carmen
Dyck, Corey
Toledo Marín, Leonel
Concepts
Philosophy
Sociology
Psychology
Natural law theory
Philosophy and politics
Philosophy of mind
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
17th century
18th century
Early modern
Enlightenment
Places
Germany
Great Britain
England
United States
Spain
France
Institutions
University of Chicago
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