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Should We All Be More English? Liang Qichao, Rudolf Von Jhering, And Rights, Stephen C. Angle
Should We All Be More English? Liang Qichao, Rudolf Von Jhering, And Rights, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Rudolf von Jhering (1818-92) published Der Kampf ums Recht (The Struggle for Law) in 1872. He was already regarded as one of Germany’s most important legal philosophers, and Der Kampf helped to ensure a world-wide reputation. His argument that people should be less like the “adult children” of China and more like the English found audiences everywhere, including China, where Der Kampf was translated between 1900 and 1901. Jhering’s doctrines stimulated Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of China’s leading thinkers, to publish “Lun Quanli Sixiang (On Rights Consciousness),” in 1902 as part of his manifesto On the New …