E-Book, Englisch, Band 105, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm
Reihe: Staatsverständnisse
Wildberger The Stoics and the State
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-8452-7448-5
Verlag: Nomos
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Theory - Practice - Context
E-Book, Englisch, Band 105, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm
Reihe: Staatsverständnisse
ISBN: 978-3-8452-7448-5
Verlag: Nomos
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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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1;Cover;1
2;1. Introduction;13
2.1;1.1 A State?;14
2.2;1.2 The Analytical Grid;16
3;2. Definitions: Four Sources for a Stoic Concept of the State;21
3.1;2.1 The State of Our Sources;21
3.2;2.2 Chrysostom: “Human Beings Administrated by Law”;22
3.3;2.3 Clement of Alexandria;24
3.3.1;2.3.1 “Neither Expugnable nor Subjugable”;25
3.3.2;2.3.2 The Wise State vs. the People as an Organized Group;26
3.4;2.4 Cleanthes: A Construction for Refuge and Justice;27
3.5;2.5 Arius Didymus: Dwelling and Organized Group;29
4;3. A Dwelling;33
4.1;3.1 Urban Structures and Institutions;33
4.1.1;3.1.1 Gymnasia;34
4.1.2;3.1.2 Temples;35
4.1.3;3.1.3 Justice and the Urban Center;40
4.2;3.2 A Common Home and the Theory of Attachment;42
4.2.1;3.2.1 Non-instrumental sociability;43
4.2.1.1;3.2.1.1 Expansional Social Attachment;44
4.2.1.2;3.2.1.2 Essential Social Attachment;46
4.2.2;3.2.2 The Cosmos as a Dwelling Made for Gods and Humans;47
5;4. The Cosmos as a State;51
5.1;4.1 The Cosmic Home as a World State;51
5.2;4.2 Only a Comparison?;53
5.2.1;4.2.1 The Citizen of the Cosmos in Therapy and Exhortation;54
5.2.2;4.2.2 A Cosmic Model-State;55
5.3;4.3 From Household to Kingdom;58
5.3.1;4.3.1 Household Terminology in Stoicism;61
5.3.2;4.3.2 Polis or Politeia?;63
5.3.3;4.3.3 The Cosmic Disposition: Fate, Nature, and Providence;64
5.3.4;4.3.4 The Cosmic Constitution and a Rational Animal’s End;67
6;5. The Law;71
6.1;5.1 The Definition of Law as Nature’s Right Word;71
6.1.1;5.1.1 Law as a Prescriptive and Prohibitive Body;71
6.1.2;5.1.2 Fate and Seed-Description (Logos Spermatikos);74
6.2;5.2 Justice and the Cosmic Disposition;75
6.3;5.3 Are Stoic Laws Rules?;77
6.4;5.4 Experience, Concepts, and Patterns in Nature;82
7;6. Inhabitants and Citizens;89
7.1;6.1 Reason as a Prerequisite for Citizenship;89
7.2;6.2 Gods;91
7.2.1;6.2.1 Hierarchies in the World State;91
7.2.2;6.2.2 Is God a Citizen Too?;93
7.3;6.3 Sages;94
7.3.1;6.3.1 Right Reason;95
7.3.2;6.3.2 Reason Twisted;98
7.4;6.4 Fools;100
7.4.1;6.4.1 Women;100
7.4.2;6.4.2 Slaves;101
7.4.3;6.4.3 Exiles, Rustics, and Feral Persons;104
7.4.4;6.4.4 Children;105
7.5;6.5 Eros;108
7.5.1;6.5.1 The Erotic Efforts of Sages;108
7.5.2;6.5.2 Eros and Concord;111
7.6;6.6 Becoming a Citizen: A Rational Animal’s End and the State Objective;111
8;7. Particular Polities;117
8.1;7.1 Utopia or Reality?;117
8.1.1;7.1.1 The Reality of the Common Law;117
8.1.2;7.1.2 Individual Polities and the Primacy of the Law;119
8.2;7.2 Objectives of Particular States and Best Constitutions;120
8.3;7.3 The Origin of Particular States;123
8.3.1;7.3.1 The Earliest Humans: “Fresh from the Gods”;123
8.3.2;7.3.2 Technology;124
8.3.3;7.3.3 A Golden Age or a Lucky Age?;126
8.3.4;7.3.4 Early Political Philosophy;130
8.3.5;7.3.5 Tyrants and Legislation;132
9;8. The Early Stoics and the Question of Political Practice;135
9.1;8.1 Is Zeno’s Society of Equals a Democracy?;135
9.2;8.2 The Early Stoics and the City State;137
9.2.1;8.2.1 Historical Context and Theory;137
9.2.2;8.2.2 Early Stoics in Politics;140
9.3;8.3 The Early Stoics’ Attitudes to Leagues and Monarchies;143
9.3.1;8.3.1 Engagement with Monarchy and Monarchs;144
9.3.2;8.3.2 Distance and Mediation;145
9.4;8.4 Stoic Discussions of Political Involvement;148
9.4.1;8.4.1 Adaptive Agency;148
9.4.2;8.4.2 In Defense of a Contemplative Life: The Evidence in Seneca;151
9.4.3;8.4.3 Incurable Polities and Progressor Polities;156
9.4.4;8.4.4 Just by Nature;158
9.4.5;8.4.5 Philosophy as Legislation;160
10;9. Stoicism in Rome;165
10.1;9.1 The Middle Stoics;165
10.2;9.2 Imperial Stoics: The Emperor;169
10.2.1;9.2.1 The Body Politic in Seneca’s De Clementia;169
10.2.2;9.2.2 Epictetus on the Emperor as a Source of Enslaving Desires;172
10.2.3;9.2.3 Marcus Aurelius;175
10.2.3.1;9.2.3.1 Marcus Conceptualizes His Status as Emperor;175
10.2.3.2;9.2.3.2 A Sociable and Political Animal in the World State;177
10.2.3.3;9.2.3.3 Ruling in Rome;182
10.3;9.3 Imperial Stoics: The Senate;184
10.3.1;9.3.1 The Stoic Opposition and Marcus’ Political Dream;184
10.3.2;9.3.2 Seneca’s Aristocracy of Virtue;186
10.3.2.1;9.3.2.1 A Change of Mind;187
10.3.2.2;9.3.2.2 A New Start;190
10.3.2.3;9.3.2.3 A New Elite of Equals: The Network of Progressor Friends;192
11;10. A Few Modern Receptions and Parallels;201
11.1;10.1 Justus Lipsius;201
11.1.1;10.1.1 Public Evils and Contingent Laws in De Constantia;202
11.1.2;10.1.2 Human Selfishness and Protective State Power in the Politica;205
11.2;10.2 Immanuel Kant and Modern Cosmopolitanism;209
11.2.1;10.2.1 Anthropology;210
11.2.2;10.2.2 State, Law, and Institutions;214
11.3;10.3 Martha Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach;216
11.3.1;10.3.1 Human Dignity and Human Rights;217
11.3.2;10.3.2 Capabilities vs. Functions: Chrysippus’ Modal Logic;221
11.3.3;10.3.3 Quietistic Disregard for Human Vulnerability?;224
11.3.4;10.3.4 The Common Law, Cultural Diversity, and Minimal Consensus;226
11.3.5;10.3.5 In Conclusion: Radical Evil or Innate Love of Others?;228
12; Literature;231
13; Index of Primary Sources Cited;247
14; Index of Selected Greek and Latin Terms;261
