Passion as the foundation of natural law in the German enlightenment: Johann Jacob Schmauss and J.H.G. von Justi

Nokkala, Ere

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“…Closer analysis reveals that Justi and Pfeiffer were among the most ardent critics of Wolff's philosophy, including Wolff's views on natural law. Justi supported a natural law that had its origin in passions (Nokkala 2010;. We know that he had studied Johann Jacob Schmauss's (1690Schmauss's ( -1757 New System (1754) in detail.…”

Section: Natural Law Natural Rights and The Legitimate Self-interestmentioning

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“…Schmauss had argued in his natural law that moral actions of man were not in the first place motivated by reason but by passions, instincts, and interests. Those were the mainsprings of human beings (Schmauss 1754;Nokkala 2010). Building on Schmauss's ideas of natural rights, Justi legitimized the pursuit for self-interest.…”

Section: Natural Law Natural Rights and The Legitimate Self-interestmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From Fatherly Government to an Economic State

Nokkala¹

2021

History of Political Economy

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This article reinterprets late Cameralists’ contribution to the reorientation of Cameral sciences in the second half of the eighteenth century. It analyses the conceptual changes to the central concept of happiness during the second half of the eighteenth century that resulted from the rethinking of the natural law foundations of the discipline. Understanding the political philosophical underpinnings of universal Cameral sciences, as they were formulated using the language of natural law, enables a new interpretation of the history of Cameralism. The shift from duties based on natural law to an emphasis on inalienable natural rights helped the late Cameralists build a political theory of an economic state, which relied on the motivating forces of legitimate self-interest and passions. The late Cameralists redescribed happiness in terms of freedom, thereby accomplishing a shift from Cameral sciences’ legitimization of fatherly rule to a political thought that had its legitimacy in the provision of freedom, security, and wealth to householders, who in their part were the main agents and movers of the economic state.

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Section: Natural Law Natural Rights and The Legitimate Self-interestmentioning

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From Fatherly Government to an Economic State

Nokkala¹

2021

History of Political Economy

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“…35 In Justi's science of police human beings are in permanent search of their inter-ests. 36 Thus individuals are unable to create the order required to achieve welfare for the community, and for that reason they need the assistance of regulations. 37 This conception of happiness emphasises the role of the monarch in the science of police; and the promotion of the common happiness may require the centralisation of the administration of the state.…”

Section: Police and Polizei: The Translation Of A Distinctionmentioning

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Cameralism in Spain

Luna-Fabritius¹

2019

Cameralism and the Enlightenment

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Elements of Police was undertaken in the 1780s, there was already an understanding of the "science of police" in Spain. Crucial to this dissemination was a jour-nal that had been influential since the 1760s. Justi's translations, how-ever, were undertaken as part of a broader translation project that played a fundamental role in promoting the improvement of the monarchy's resources. Two sets of actors in this process can be identified: (i) those individuals involved in the Economic Societies of Friends of the Country in the Crown of Aragon and (ii) the powerful Castilian-Asturian group of ministers. The first disseminated new ideas for increasing the happiness of the people, including the promotion of the liberty of trade across the trans-oceanic Spanish dominions of authority; the adoption of new techniques to improve agriculture, mining; and they also encouraged the colonisation of uninhabited areas through the establishment of military regimes to organise new settlements.This chapter considers the place of cameral science in eighteenth-century Spanish political-economic thought, with an emphasis on two Spanish translations by the cameralist thinker Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi. His Elements of Police ( Grundsätze der Polizeywissenschaft 1756) was translated into Spanish twice, the first in Barcelona in 1784, the second in Madrid in 1791. 1 Other Cameralist writers, including Jakob Friedrich Bielfeld (1717-70), Friedrich II (1712-86) and Joseph Sonnenfels (1732-1817) were all translated into Spanish around the same period. However, the historiography has misattributed the translation of Justi's Élemens from 1791, questioning the appropriation of cameral ideas in Spain over the second half of the eighteenth century as established by the pioneering studies of European cameralism by Ernest Lluch, and opening a path for further research into Justi's translations into Spanish. Despite their differences, both translations were part of a common initiative disseminating European economic ideas so as to shape the ongoing Bourbon reforms, which were intended to improve circumstances in the vast intercontinental territories of the Spanish monarchy. There is evidence that, before the first translation of Justi's

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Historia magistra vitae – ad acta oder ad nauseam?

Rössner¹

2018

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Summary Historia magistra vitae – ad acta or ad nauseam? Early Modern Research and Economic History in the Age of Neoliberalism und Trump (1973 – 2018) Recent decades have seen the rise of neoliberal interpretations in the economic history of capitalism, development and economic growth. Free trade and free markets are said to have been the epitome of good economic development, whilst protectionism and mercantilism are seen as the antinomy of economic modernity. The economic history of early modern Europe, including processes of global economic divergence have often been written accordingly. The present paper, whilst not laying any judgemental claims to the right or wrongs of neoliberalism, wishes to trace the influence of neoliberal philosophy on writing early modern economic histories and the history of capitalism. It studies some of its most obvious implications, including Eurocentrism, economic determinism and the new historical materialism inherent in cliometrics and the New Economic History as it emerged in the 1960 s and 1970 s in the West.

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Passion as the foundation of natural law in the German enlightenment: Johann Jacob Schmauss and J.H.G. von Justi

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From Fatherly Government to an Economic State

From Fatherly Government to an Economic State

Cameralism in Spain

Historia magistra vitae – ad acta oder ad nauseam?

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