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 One - A general classification of key ideas
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
Deus ordinem saeculorum tanquam
pulcherrimum carmen ex quibusdam
quasi antithetis honestavit.
God has graced the course of the ages
with the charm of a most beautiful
piece of music, fashioned out of
seeming opposites.
(Adapted rather than directly quoted from several passages in Augustine, City of God, bk. XI, chs. 1 and 18).- Type
- Chapter
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- Tönnies: Community and Civil Society , pp. 15 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001