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State and Nature - Studies in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Paperback)
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A much-maligned feature of ancient and medieval political thought
is its tendency to appeal to nature to establish norms for human
communities. From Aristotle's claim that humans are "political
animals" to Aquinas' invocation of "natural law," it may seem that
pre-modern philosophers were all too ready to assume that whatever
is natural is good, and that just political arrangements must
somehow be natural. The papers in this collection show that this
assumption is, at best, too crude. From very early, for instance in
the ancient sophists' contrast between nomos and physis, there was
recognition that political arrangements may be precisely
artificial, not natural, and it may be questioned whether even such
supposed naturalists as Aristotle in fact adopt the quick inference
from "natural" to "good." The papers in this volume trace the
complex interrelations between nature and such concepts as law,
legitimacy, and justice, covering a wide historical range
stretching from Plato and the Sophists to Aristotle, Hellenistic
philosophy, Cicero, the Neoplatonists Plotinus and Porphyry,
ancient Christian thinkers, and philosophers of both the Islamic
and Christian Middle Ages.
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