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Volksgeist
cultural spirit
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theories of Savigny
- In Friedrich Karl von Savigny: Legal philosophy
…to their distinctive ethos, or Volksgeist (“national spirit”). To the Romantics, the national spirit thus became the ultimate datum to be explored in its various manifestations. From this point of view law is not something that can be devised by means of rational formal legislation but rather originates in the…
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