Description: How did the Stoics conceive of a polis and statehood? What happens when these ideas meet different biographies and changing historical environments? To answer these questions, 'The Stoics and the State' combines close philological reading of original source texts and fine-grained conceptual analysis with wide-ranging contextualisation, which is both thematic and diachronic. A systematic account elucidates extant definitions, aspects of statehood (territory, institutions, population and state objectives) and the constitutive function of the common law. The book's diachronic part investigates how Stoics from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius used their theory of the state to assess particular states, explain the origin of political communities and shape their own political practice. A glimpse at modern adaptations from Justus Lipsius to Martha C. Nussbaum explains the peculiarities of Stoic notions and their basis in a conception of human nature as not only political but essentially sociable and beneficent.
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EAN: 9783848728435
UPC: 9783848728435
ISBN: 9783848728435
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Book Title: The Stoics and the State: Theory - Practice - Cont
Item Height: 2.3 cm
Item Length: 22.6 cm
Item Width: 15.2 cm
Number of Pages: 263 Pages
Publication Name: Stoics and the State : Theory-Practice-Context
Language: English
Publisher: NOMOS Verlagsgesellschaft
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: History & Theory, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General, Political
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy
Author: Jula Wildberger
Series: Staatsverstandnisse Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
