The Stoics and the State: Theory - Practice - Context

The Stoics and the State: Theory - Practice - Context

Author
Jula Wildberger
Publisher
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Language
English
Edition
Paperback
Year
2018
Page
243
ISBN
3848728435,9783848728435
File Type
pdf
File Size
5.8 MiB

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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