Johann Christian von Boineburg, Samuel Pufendorf, and the foundation myth of modern natural law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7095359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gábor Gángó (0009-0000-6420-5759, University of Erfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 523-542 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01916599.2022.2099044 |
| OpenAlex | W4285388101 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of Samuel Pufendorf’s road from his early Elementa jurisprudentiae universalis, published in late 1660 to the eight ‘books’ of De jure naturae et gentium from 1672. In the latter, Pufendorf completed a methodical shift from the more geometrico method to a universal jurisprudence based upon a wide range of humanistic arts, including history. In this connection, Pufendorf gave more credit to Hugo Grotius and his De jure belli ac pacis than in the earlier work. The paper redefines the role that Pufendorf’s contacts with the Chief Minister from Mainz, Johann Christian von Boineburg and his closest collaborators, Hermann Conring and Johann Heinrich Boecler played in Pufendorf’s shift of approach to ‘universal jurisprudence’. Hitherto underexplored correspondence of Boineburg with Boecler permits a reconstruction of the polemic that Boineburg incited and fuelled between Pufendorf and Boecler. Pufendorf’s reflections of the events in the Preface of the first edition of De jure naturae et gentium and later Christian Thomasius’s account in Paulo plenior, historia juris naturalis made the intermezzo into an essential part of the foundation myth of modern natural law
Humanism · Humanities · Jurisprudence · Mythology · Natural law · Theology · Thomism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · History · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |