Stahl

Excerpts from the work of Friedrich Julius Stahl

Of the Doctrine of State in General

Of the Doctrine of State in General

  From Friedrich Julius Stahl, The Doctrine of State & the Principles of State Law (Aalten: WordBridge, 2009), pp. 1–16. §. 1. Concept of the Ethical Kingdom The doctrine of the state, as put forward in this book, is grounded in the concept of ...
The State as Ethical Kingdom

The State as Ethical Kingdom

Here Stahl situates the state within the larger context of the ethical kingdom, rescuing it from various notions by which it either is divorced from the kingdom of God in various secular iterations, or made into a direct expression of the kingdom of...
The Two Principles of State Order

The Two Principles of State Order

Assuming  the rightness of the critique provided by anti-revolutionary thinkers such as Groen van Prinsterer , what then should be the result? Obviously, by the nature of the case, Christians, being anti-revolutionaries (whether Rousseauian or Jeffersonian: ...
The Monarchical Principle

The Monarchical Principle

Taken from chapter twelve of Friedrich Julius Stahl, The Doctrine of State & the Principles of State Law  (WordBridge Publishing), pp. 275-314. Chapter 12: The Monarchical Principle[1] §. 110. The English Parliamentary Principle <275> ...
European versus American Democracy

European versus American Democracy

Friedrich Julius Stahl From Die gegenwärtigen Parteien in Staat und Kirche [The Contemporary Parties in State and Church], Berlin 1863, pp. 197–207. Something quite different from the system and orientation of the democratic party is the de...
Europese versus Amerikaanse Democratie

Europese versus Amerikaanse Democratie

Friedrich Julius Stahl Politieke en Kerkelijke Partijen In Europa: Akademische Voorlezingen van Dr F. J. Stahl, in leven Hoogleeraar in de Rechten te Berlijn . Uit het Duitsch vertaald door Dr. A. van der Linde. Nymegen: Adolf Blomhert, 1865....