The second edition includes supplementary explanations on topics such as Plato's concept of justice, the origin of the idea of human dignity in Stoicism and Christianity, the discussion of lex naturalis in Thomas Aquinas, and a new presentation of the teachings of Marsilius of Padua. Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde's masterful history of legal and political philosophy is the result of years of lecturing: a classic historical-political history of ideas, both in form and content, covering the major systems that established and interpreted the normative order of human coexistence in the West until the end of the Middle Ages. Otto Kallscheuer, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 19, 2003.