The Transition from Greco-Roman and Medieval to Modern Political Theories

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ID6213464
AuthorsD F M Strau (0000-0002-2397-9181, corresponding author), D F M Strauss
Year2007
Volume34
Issue1
Pages53-65
Publication date2007-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitikon (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0258-9346 • E-ISSN: 1470-1014
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02589340701336260
OpenAlexW1990965450
LanguageEN
References cited6

The ideal of an all-embracing education of a person in order to become a good citizen—as it was shaped in the Paideia ideal of classical Greek culture— underwent important transformations during the medieval and early modern period. This article starts with the Greco-Roman conceptions of the Stoa, Cicero and Seneca and subsequently focuses on the split present in the development of medieval views—both within the domain of theoretical reflection and the practical relations between church and state. In addition attention is given to the totalitarian position of Machiavelli, Bodin and Hobbes—placed within the context that even the later theories of Locke and Rousseau merely advanced formal theories of the just state without proving material guarantees for such a state

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Cicero · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Order (exchange · Paideia · Period (music · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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