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🧵 Protestant teaching on #NaturalLaw appears already in Philip Melanchthon’s Loci communes (1521), & his treatment had a much larger impact.
We can illustrate this impact by recurring use of Greek terms from Stoic philosophy: “common notions” & “preconceptions” (προλήψεις). /1
We can illustrate this impact by recurring use of Greek terms from Stoic philosophy: “common notions” & “preconceptions” (προλήψεις). /1
The 1521 Loci communes marginalia highlights 1) the existence and 2) essence of NL (esse legem naturae / quid lex naturae).
1) “Paul teaches in the second chapter to the Romans, in a remarkably fine and clear enthymeme (enthymemate), that there is in us a law of nature.” /2
1) “Paul teaches in the second chapter to the Romans, in a remarkably fine and clear enthymeme (enthymemate), that there is in us a law of nature.” /2
2) Melanchthon defines natural law as moral “common principles” and “first conclusions”. They are analogous to common principles in theoretical disciplines, called “common notions” (κοιναὶ ἐννοίαι) or “preconceptions” (προλήψεις). /3
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Story of a important man in history who got pretty much sadly forgoten😔. As one of the biggedt resistance of Hitler. So I write this also in his memorial
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So I resarched a bit about
Carl Albert Fritz Michael Gerlich
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So I resarched a bit about
Carl Albert Fritz Michael Gerlich
Carl Albert Fritz Michael Gerlich. Born February 15, 1883 in Szczecin in a Calvinist family with four brothers; Died July 1, 1934 in the #Dachau #concentrationcamp. He studied mathematics and physics in 1902. History and anthropology in 1903.
In 1907 he received his doctorate in philosophy (Dr.Phil). In addition to his work as a historian in the Bavarian State Archives Service, he published numerous articles on anti-socialist and ethnic-#German-conservative topics in the southern German monthly magazines.
