A Self-Study Guide and Solutions to Problems in the History of Western Legal Thought (2nd Edition)

Author: Gu Chunde, Wang Zhendong (editors)
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: The history of Western legal thought is both a historical discipline within the field of law and a theoretical discipline within it. The history of Western legal thought studies the political and legal thoughts, views, theories, and doctrines of different thinkers in various historical periods of major European and North American countries, as well as the laws of their emergence, development, and evolution. It covers major Western countries such as ancient Greece, Rome, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, and the United States, as well as a large number of thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and their works, along with various schools of law such as natural law, analytical jurisprudence, and sociological jurisprudence. The introduction primarily discusses the research object and scope of the history of Western legal thought, its relationship with other disciplines (such as the history of foreign legal systems, the history of Western political thought, the history of Western philosophy, and the basic theory of law), the significance of studying the history of Western legal thought (it helps to comprehensively understand the various legal thoughts, views, theories, and doctrines in the history of major European and North American countries, as well as their emergence, development, and evolution; it helps to adhere to and develop Marxist jurisprudence; it helps to implement the strategy and goals of governing the country according to law, building a socialist rule-of-law state, and advancing the development of democracy, the legal system, and political civilization in China), and the system of this course.