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The Art of the Good: On the Regeneration of Fallen Justice
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About The Art Of The Good: On The Regeneration Of Fallen
Product Description Valentin Tomberg was born in St. Petersburg on February 26, 1900. Having been baptized a Protestant, he entered the Greek Orthodox church shortly before 1933, and, in 1945, became a Roman Catholic. In 1938 Tomberg emigrated to the Netherlands and began actively to lecture on Christological topics. At the beginning of 1944 he moved to Cologne, where he was awarded the title of Doctor of Law for the dissertation here published in English for the first time. This dissertation marked an important turning-point in Tomberg’s life: humanistic studies he had presented during his thirties are now replaced by a strict orientation towards a Platonic model of knowledge, and a medieval, so-called “realism of universals.” Tomberg came to regard the modern path away from natural law (founded upon religion) and toward legal positivism (oriented toward power) as a dismantling of the different levels of law (and at the same time a loss of both the idea and ideal of law)—that is, as a process of degeneration or “fall,” which Tomberg seeks to reverse in the direction of regeneration. He also proposes a new way of organizing the academic study of law, in which the higher levels of law would be included, and in which access to the idea and the ideal of law would be restored. From the Back Cover " A polyglot and polymath whose mother was shot by Soviet police and who later wrote this work while bombs exploded around him in Cologne stood in a unique position to reflect on the degeneration of jurisprudence: the comprehensive understanding and practice of law in human society, the 'art of the good and the equitable,' which distinguishes civilization from barbarism. In this concise overview Tomberg encapsulates the ideal, idea, and concept of law: the eternal law, the natural law, and positive law, inseparably interlinked. His critique of the Western fall from theonomy into rationalism and finally into positivism is balanced by a hopeful vision of how the study and exercise of law might be invigorated by humanistic and Christian wisdom."-- PETER A. KWASNIEWSKI , author of Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright and Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness "In Tomberg's eyes the opportunistic toleration by the mass of legal scholars and lawyers of the human catastrophe of the Second World War was the consequence of the degeneration of jurisprudence that had begun in the medieval controversy between realism and nominalism, continued in the Renaissance and Early Modern period, led to the European revolutions, and culminated in the modern totalitarian state. In his jurisprudential studies he sought to contribute to a regeneration of jurisprudence, and thereby to a regeneration of law as well."--MICHAEL FRENSCH, author of Wisdom as Person: Western Metaphysics and the Sophiological Perspective "Valentin Tomberg's personal experience with the criminal states of Soviet Union and Nazi Germany showed him how law that has become an instrument of evil can be regenerated by the awakening of moral consciousness."-- HARRIE SALMAN , author of The Social World as Mystery Center About the Author Valentin Tomberg was born into a Lutheran family in St. Petersburg, Russia. Tomberg's mother was killed by looters during the Russian Revolution, after which Valentin and his father fled to Tallinn, Estonia, where Tomberg studied languages and comparative religion at the University of Tartu. As a young man, he was strongly influenced by Vladimir Soloviev and had a personal experience of the Sophia at a cathedral in Holland. In 1925, he joined the Anthroposophical Society, under whose auspices he lectured in Holland and England and wrote on his understanding of the Bible, Anthroposophy, and Christianity. During World War II, he left the Anthroposophical Society and its internal struggles and converted to Catholicism. In 1948, he moved to England, where he became a translator for the BBC and monitored Soviet broadcasts
