NOTES AND OTHER MATERIALS FROM FRANK H. KNIGHT’S COURSE, ECONOMICS FROM INSTITUTIONAL STANDPOINT, ECONOMICS 305, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1933–1934

Abstract

I am indebted to Anthony Waterman for identifying the largely illegible phrase cuius regio, eius religio, found near the end of Ostrander’s notes. Waterman writes, in explanation, apropos of Martin Luther: Lit. ‘whatever of the king, so of the religion’: it means that L. thought (being the Erastian he was), that the religion of a country should be that of its sovereign prince. Note: (a), the assumption, almost universal at that time, that there can be only ONE church in any Christian nation; and (b) the assumption, standard until the Scottish Enlightenment I should think (though people like Locke begin to chip away at it) that – as Louis XIV put it with admirable economy, ‘l’etat c’est moi’ (Waterman to Samuels, December 12, 2002).

Citation

Samuels, W.J. (2005), "NOTES AND OTHER MATERIALS FROM FRANK H. KNIGHT’S COURSE, ECONOMICS FROM INSTITUTIONAL STANDPOINT, ECONOMICS 305, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1933–1934", Samuels, W.J. (Ed.) Documents from F. Taylor Ostrander (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 23 Part 2), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 141-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(05)23103-6