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A Common Good in Doctrinal and Legal Terms. An Attempt at a Holistic Approach
A Common Good in Doctrinal and Legal Terms. An Attempt at a Holistic Approach

Author(s): Paweł Sydor
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Middle Ages, Government/Political systems, History and theory of political science, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Społeczna Akademia Nauk
Keywords: state; law; society; common good (value); political doctrines;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present two opposing visions of the common good (value) in the history of political and legal doctrines. Such outline of extreme positions allows the author to assess the wide range of doctrinal differences in particular epochs and to impose the principles of the rule of law expressed in art. 2 of the Constitution in the historical tradition derived from the ancient republicanism and political and legal thought of the Middle Ages and which absorbs the postulates of modern liberalism, republicanism and conservatism, based on the democratic model.

  • Issue Year: 19/2018
  • Issue No: 9.1
  • Page Range: 7-16
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English