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Зачеци српске филозофске мисли о природном праву
Origins of Serbian Natural Law Philosophy

Author(s): Slobodan Perović
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Recent History (1900 till today), Philosophy of Law, 19th Century
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду
Keywords: Natural law; Justice; Serbia; Jovan Filipović; Jovan Sterija Popović; Dimitrije Matić;

Summary/Abstract: The influence of theoretical perspectives on natural law among the representatives of the rational theory (Descartes, Kant, Fichte, Hegel) can be found in Serbia as early as the first half of the XIX century. The first significant scholar was Jovan Filipović, and his work ,,Legal Philosophy‘‘ (1893), then Jovan Sterija Popović, the follower of Kant, who is the author of ,,Natural Law‘‘ (1841) published only in 1995, more than 150 years after it was written. After this, Dimitrije Matić, the student of Sterija and follower of Hegel, wrote ,,The Principles of Intellectual State Law‘‘ in which he represents the ideas of the rational concept of natural law. In the first half of the XX century, in the Serbian philosophy of law, including natural law, two great legal scholars have significant roles -- Toma Živanović (,,The system of synthetic philosophy‘‘) and Božidar S. Marković with his numerous works in the area of commercial law.

  • Issue Year: 49/2001
  • Issue No: 1-4
  • Page Range: 205-217
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian