Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- General introduction
- Chronology of Tönnies's life and career
- A note on the texts and further reading
- A note on translation
- Glossary
- COMMUNITY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
- Book One A general classification of key ideas
- Book Two Natural will and rational will
- Book Three The sociological basis of natural law
- Appendix: Conclusions and future prospects
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Book Two - Natural will and rational will
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- General introduction
- Chronology of Tönnies's life and career
- A note on the texts and further reading
- A note on translation
- Glossary
- COMMUNITY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
- Book One A general classification of key ideas
- Book Two Natural will and rational will
- Book Three The sociological basis of natural law
- Appendix: Conclusions and future prospects
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Summary
Voluntas atque intellectus unum et idem sunt
Will and intellect are one and the same'
(Spinoza's Ethics, prop. xlix).Der Wille ist die Wurzel der Bildnis
Ein falscher Wille zerstört die Bildnis
Will is the root of what appears on the outside.
A false will destroys that outward appearance.
(Jakob Böhme)- Type
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- Tönnies: Community and Civil Society , pp. 93 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001