Rudolf Stammler was a German legal philosopher who taught law at Marburg, Giessen, Halle and Berlin between the 1880s and the 1920s, becoming one of the most influential legal theorists of the early twentieth century. He distinguished the concept of law, a purely formal category, from the ideal of law, the realization of justice, arguing against most nineteenth-century legal philosophy that jurisprudence must still search for a theoretically valid standard of justice against which actual law could be measured. Stammler's doctrine of natural law with changing content held that this ideal was not fixed but reflected the degree of social harmony achievable in a given time and place, a view he developed against the Marxist claim that law simply evolves to fit a society's economic base. His major work, Die Lehre von dem richtigen Rechte of 1902, was later translated into English as The Theory of Justice.
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How did Rudolf Stammler's view of law differ from the Marxist view?
He held that law shapes the economy, while Marxists held that laws evolve to support an existing economic system.
Stammler claimed that law plays a central role in shaping the economy, in contrast with the Marxist view that laws evolve naturally to support a given economic system. He also held that the ideal of law depended on the level of social harmony in a given place and would change over time, and that law should be adapted to conform to that ideal. Although the ideal would vary from one age to another, it remained subject to the absolute principles of respect and participation.
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He distinguished a purely formal concept of law from the ideal, the realization of justice.
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Rudolf Stammler was a German legal philosopher who taught law at Marburg, Giessen, Halle and Berlin between the 1880s and the 1920s, becoming one of the most influential legal theorists of the early twentieth century.
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Karl Eduard Julius Theodor Rudolf Stammler (19 February 1856 - 25 April 1938) was an influential German philosopher of law.
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He distinguished the concept of law, a purely formal category, from the ideal of law, the realization of justice, arguing against most nineteenth-century legal philosophy that jurisprudence must still search for a theoretically valid standard of justice against which actual law could be measured.
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was an influential German philosopher of law
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P569 (date of birth): 1856
Wikidata Q77651, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1856-02-19
Wikidata Q77651, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1938
Wikidata Q77651, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1938-04-25
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P19 (place of birth): Alsfeld
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P20 (place of death): Wernigerode
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