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Contemplating the whole history of legal philosophy — from the classical theory of natural law to its further development in mediaeval Christianity to the law of reason of modern times — one should expect to find at the end of this longer than 2000 years period of time, the ‘victory’ of practical reason reflected in the sound existence of fundamental legal principles. Instead, one is rather confronted with the disownment of reason through legal-philosophical relativism.
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Oeser, E. (2003). Legal Philosophy as a Developmental Theory of Law. In: Evolution and Constitution. Theory and Decision Library, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1502-7_3
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