Open AccessTHE PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE OF THE FRENCH CIVIL CODE OF 1804: THE CONSTITUTION OF A RELIGIO CIVILIS
Author(s) -
Miguel Ángel Asensio Sánchez
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista de antropología y filosofía de lo sagrado/revista de antropología y filosofía de lo sagrado
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2603-6053
pISSN - 2530-1233
DOI - 10.24310/raphisa.2017.v0i2.4307
Subject(s) - constitution , morality , law , politics , order (exchange) , civil code , civil law (civil law) , code (set theory) , political science , key (lock) , sociology , public law , ecology , set (abstract data type) , finance , computer science , economics , biology , programming language
The preface to the French Civil Code of 1804 announced a New Order based on Right Reason and the political-legal values of the French Revolution, in an attempt to replace the role which churches had traditionally played in the morality of society. Moreover, the new civil law was presented as a substitute for moral law and religion with the aim of taking their place in that burgeoning society. One-dimensional law came into being in order to regulate all aspects of life and was ultimately to do away with the sin/crime dichotomy..Key words: Law, religión, sin, crime