{"_index":"bib","_type":"_doc","_id":"5409","_score":null,"_source":{"id":5409,"authors_free":[{"id":6270,"entry_id":5409,"agent_type":"person","is_normalised":null,"person_id":null,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Emanuele Castrucci","free_first_name":"Emanuele","free_last_name":"Castrucci","norm_person":null}],"entry_title":"On the Idea of Potency: Juridical and Theological Roots of the Western Cultural Tradition","title_transcript":"","title_translation":"","main_title":{"title":"On the Idea of Potency: Juridical and Theological Roots of the Western Cultural Tradition"},"abstract":"A critique of the metaphysical concept of power and potency in the history of Western jurisprudence\r\n\r\nSweeping through the history of Western philosophy of law, Emanuele Castrucci deals with the metaphysical idea of potency as defined by Spinoza and Nietzsche, upsetting entrenched theories of jurisprudence.\r\n\r\nCastrucci first addresses how the idea of potency can change the meaning of the power ascribed to an omnipotent God. This brings together classical Greek philosophy with Jewish biblical exegesis, which Castrucci links through the juncture of Christianity. He then relates potency to the classical philosophical tradition in Aristotle's Metaphysics and its Arabic interpretations, particularly Ibn Rushd's (Averro\u00ebs). This leads us to the genesis of natural law theory in Western philosophy, from Augustine to Aquinas and from Duns Scotus to Ockham.\r\n\r\nMoving on, Castrucci examines the inherently problematic concept of political theology, pitting Spinozan\u2013Nietzschean potency against Kant and Enlightenment natural law to reveal the weaknesses inherent in the Enlightenment system. Finally, Castrucci applies the theories of Carl Schmitt to the philosophical rationalism of the Western tradition, showing us how it has failed to contain absolute power in a juridical sense.","btype":1,"date":"2016","language":"English","online_url":"","doi_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/9781474411868","ti_url":"","categories":[{"id":26,"category_name":"Law","link":"bib?categories[]=Law"},{"id":18,"category_name":"Surveys","link":"bib?categories[]=Surveys"},{"id":31,"category_name":"Metaphysics","link":"bib?categories[]=Metaphysics"},{"id":4,"category_name":"Politics","link":"bib?categories[]=Politics"}],"authors":[],"works":[],"republication_of":null,"translation_of":null,"new_edition_of":null,"book":{"id":5409,"pubplace":"Edinburgh ","publisher":"Edinburgh University Press","series":" Encounters in Law & Philosophy: ELP","volume":"","edition_no":"","valid_from":null,"valid_until":null},"booksection":null,"article":null},"sort":[2016]}

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