The idea of a contract of government in the political theories on Empire of the 14th and 15th centuries

Autor: Walther, Helmut G.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Popis: Marsilius of Padua is perhaps the most prominent but not the most influential representative of political theory in the 14th century. In his Defensor Pacis he avoids explicitely to construct a contractual base when he presents the development of political human communities. His Aristotelian anthropological view of man as a animal sociale et politicum relies more on human experiencia than on the Aristotelian inclinatio naturalis so vehemently stressed by Aquinas and his school. Therefore you c...
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