TY - JOUR AU - Raath, A. W. G. AU - Nell, A. PY - 2010/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - From Synteresis to the Ground of the Mind: Melanchthon and the Transformation of the Ontological Grounding of Natural Law Theory in Early Modern German Theologico-moral Thought JF - Tydskrif vir Christelike Wetenskap | Journal for Christian Scholarship JA - TCW/JCS VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - DO - UR - https://pubs.ufs.ac.za/index.php/tcw/article/view/242 SP - 1-34 AB - <p>An important offshoot of the current interest in the legal philosophy of the German Reformation is the focus on Philip Melanchthon’s legal theory. A problematic as pect of Melanchthon’s legal philosophical thought is his orientation of justice and natural law towards particular notitiae which provide the human mind with phi losophical knowledge in a fundamental sense. This essay argues that Me lanchthon’s use of notitiae should be understood in the light of the late-Medieval German Christian tradition’s use of the term.</p> ER -