{"title":"From Wolff to Kelsen: The Transformation of the Notion of Civitas Maxima","authors":"P. Langford, Ian Bryan","doi":"10.1163/9789004390393_006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390393_006","url":null,"abstract":"A significant part of Kelsen’s work is devoted to the theoretical and methodological separation of positive law from natural law. The predominant impression of this process is of a determination to entirely sunder the conceptual framework of positive law from any continuing reliance upon natural law. However, certain of Kelsen’s works involve the appropriation of the notion of civitas maxima from Christian Wolff’s Jus Gentium Methodo Scientifica Pertractatum (1749). The presence of this notion raises the question of the relationship between Kelsen’s theoretical framework and the conception of natural law developed by Christian Wolff. It is through an examination of the transformation of Wolff’s notion of civitas maxima that an important aspect of Kelsen’s relationship to the natural law tradition becomes apparent. The appropriation will be traced through the initial discussion of civitas maxima in Kelsen’s Das Problem der Souveranitat und die Theorie des Volkerrechts. Beitrag Zu Einer Reinen Rechtslehre (1920/1928), and its further exposition and development in Kelsen’s 1926 Lecture Course (‘Les Rapports de Systeme entre le Droit Interne et le Droit International’) at the l’Academie de droit international, in the Hague. In this manner, the significant methodological divergences between a Kelsenian theory of positive law, as a theory of legal monism according primacy to international law, and the Wolffian theory of natural law, as a theory of the law of nations, will become evident. This methodological divergence, however, should not obscure a more than residual affinity between Kelsen and Wolff concerning the cosmopolitical orientation of their thought.","PeriodicalId":309872,"journal":{"name":"Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115284691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nomos or Law? Hans Kelsen’s Criticism of Carl Schmitt’s Metaphysics of Law and Politics","authors":"G. Donhauser","doi":"10.1163/9789004390393_012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390393_012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":309872,"journal":{"name":"Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133332341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Trouble with Nature","authors":"Mariano Croce","doi":"10.1163/9789004390393_013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390393_013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":309872,"journal":{"name":"Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition","volume":"10 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131958687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: The Kelsenian Critique of Natural Law","authors":"P. Langford, Ian Bryan","doi":"10.1163/9789004390393_002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390393_002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":309872,"journal":{"name":"Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121650488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Natural Law and the Vienna School: Hans Kelsen, Alfred Verdross, and Eric Voegelin","authors":"F. Fillafer, J. Feichtinger","doi":"10.1163/9789004390393_014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390393_014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":309872,"journal":{"name":"Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132902958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hans Kelsen and Southwest German Neo-Kantianism on Natural Law: Transcendental Philosophy beyond Metaphysics and Positivism","authors":"C. Krijnen","doi":"10.1163/9789004390393_010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390393_010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that Kelsen’s discussion and conception of the foundations of law misunderstands essential aspects of the foundations of normativity. Kelsen seems to miss the point of Kant’s transcendental turn in conceiving philosophical foundations, so important for the development of the philosophy after Kant, not least for the neo-Kantians. The main schools of neo-Kantianism have their central, common feature in stressing and rejuvenating exactly Kant’s transcendental turn. This emphasis on the transcendental turn is prevalent in much of the Southwest neo-Kantian remarks on natural law. Kelsen, however, repeatedly presents Kant as a metaphysical thinker. This distinguishes Kelsen from the leading schools of neo-Kantianism, who consider Kant a post-metaphysical philosopher. The influence of neo-Kantianism, especially that of the Southwest School, on Kelsen should be seen, therefore, in an instrumental rather programmatic sense. Accordingly, the chapter will apply essentials of Kantian and neo-Kantian philosophy to Kelsen’s analysis of law. From this, it will be argued that the hypothesis of law which underlies Kelsen’s legal positivism is an inadequate expression of the idea of law.","PeriodicalId":309872,"journal":{"name":"Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116716402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hans Kelsen and Leo Strauss on Naturrecht and the Post-theological Wager","authors":"Peter Gostmann","doi":"10.1163/9789004390393_016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390393_016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":309872,"journal":{"name":"Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122667629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion: Beyond Legal Positivism and Natural Law?","authors":"P. Langford, Ian Bryan","doi":"10.1163/9789004390393_017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390393_017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":309872,"journal":{"name":"Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132367031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kelsen versus Kant on the Nature of Law","authors":"Joachim Renzikowski","doi":"10.1163/9789004390393_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390393_008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":309872,"journal":{"name":"Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121222680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grounding the Normativity of Law: The Role of Transcendental Argumentation in Kelsen’s Critique of Natural Law Theory","authors":"Ana Dimiškovska","doi":"10.1163/9789004390393_009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390393_009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":309872,"journal":{"name":"Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129008624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}