TY - UNPB
T1 - The Missing Link in the Philosophy of Enlightenment
T2 - - Reasonability, will and separation of powers in the philosophy of justice of Henri-François d'Aguesseau, chancellor of France
AU - Harste, Gorm
N1 - Paper to the conference "Philosophy and Social Science" in Dubrovnik, March 2006
The paper is still work in progress
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The paper examines the opening of state reasoning towards public deliberation during the Enlightenment. Since the Enlightenment, a number of standards for public reasoning have been settled. These concerned the constitution of reasoning, freedom of speech and print, toleration, justice and other social and political phenomena as well. Following the lead of Immanuel Kant, these standards and procedures are often, for instance by Reinhart Koselleck, claimed to be forms of reasoning that follow a model of a tribunal. Accordingly, the paper analyses the self-descriptions, semantics and the thoughts constituting the public reasoning in the leading court of justice during the early Enlightenment, the Paris parlements. The yearly speeches from 1693 - 1715 as well as the philosophy of law, from 1727, by the royal attorney and later chancellor Henri-François d'Aguesseau (1668 - 1751) are subject to the analysis of the paper. It seems clear that a the Copernican turn in social reasoning took place at that moment according to the form of "Reason's Empire".
AB - The paper examines the opening of state reasoning towards public deliberation during the Enlightenment. Since the Enlightenment, a number of standards for public reasoning have been settled. These concerned the constitution of reasoning, freedom of speech and print, toleration, justice and other social and political phenomena as well. Following the lead of Immanuel Kant, these standards and procedures are often, for instance by Reinhart Koselleck, claimed to be forms of reasoning that follow a model of a tribunal. Accordingly, the paper analyses the self-descriptions, semantics and the thoughts constituting the public reasoning in the leading court of justice during the early Enlightenment, the Paris parlements. The yearly speeches from 1693 - 1715 as well as the philosophy of law, from 1727, by the royal attorney and later chancellor Henri-François d'Aguesseau (1668 - 1751) are subject to the analysis of the paper. It seems clear that a the Copernican turn in social reasoning took place at that moment according to the form of "Reason's Empire".
M3 - Working paper
SP - 1
EP - 22
BT - The Missing Link in the Philosophy of Enlightenment
PB - Department of Political Science
CY - Aarhus University
ER -