TY  - BOOK
AU  - J.A. Fernandez-Santamaria
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Natural Law, Constitutionalism, Reason of State, and War
T2  - Counter-Reformation Spanish Political Thought, Volume II
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100372
N2  - Natural Law, Constitutionalism, Reason of State, and War: Counter-Reformation Spanish Political Thought (Volumes I and II) aims at understanding how Spanish thinkers in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries approached the emerging institution of the state. The volumes are divided evenly into four distinct but related parts that cover the Spaniards’ central concerns. In the first, a fundamental question is asked: Is the state a natural institution? In the second, the theme is the best form of government. The third part is concerned with the imperative need to define the ethical boundaries beyond which the state must not trespass. Finally, the fourth part examines the question of war as an instrument of policy.
KW  - Spanien, Staatslehre, Geschichte 1500-1650, Counter-Reformation, Political Though
LA  - English
ER  -