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
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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.
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