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Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the
analogy between the self and political society in the thought of
St. Augustine of Hippo. This analogy is an important theme in the
history of political thought. Attempts have been made to understand
the state by examining the soul (since Plato), the body (as in
medieval theories of the body politic) and the person (surviving to
this day in such concepts as international legal personality). This
book aims to reinstate the Augustinian part of the story. It argues
that Augustine develops three analogies between self and city, as a
society ordered by love: self-love in the case of the Earthly City;
divided but improving love in the Pilgrim City; and love of others
and of God in the City of God. It supplies thereby an overview of
Augustine's intellectual 'system' as it touches upon theology,
psychology and anthropology, as well as politics, and also provides
a new interpretation of Augustine's important definition of the
republic.
Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the
analogy between the self and political society in the thought of
St. Augustine of Hippo. This analogy is an important theme in the
history of political thought. Attempts have been made to understand
the state by examining the soul (since Plato), the body (as in
medieval theories of the body politic) and the person (surviving to
this day in such concepts as international legal personality). This
book aims to reinstate the Augustinian part of the story. It argues
that Augustine develops three analogies between self and city, as a
society ordered by love: self-love in the case of the Earthly City;
divided but improving love in the Pilgrim City; and love of others
and of God in the City of God. It supplies thereby an overview of
Augustine's intellectual 'system' as it touches upon theology,
psychology and anthropology, as well as politics, and also provides
a new interpretation of Augustine's important definition of the
republic.
This is the first detailed study in any language of the single most
influential theory of the modern state: Samuel von Pufendorf's
account of the state as a 'moral person'. Ben Holland reconstructs
the theological and political contexts in and for which Pufendorf
conceived of the state as being a person. Pufendorf took up an
early Christian conception of personality and a medieval conception
of freedom in order to fashion a theory of the state appropriate to
continental Europe, and which could head off some of the absolutist
implications of a rival theory of state personality, that of
Hobbes. The book traces the fate of the concept in the hands of
others - international lawyers, moral philosophers and
revolutionaries - until the early twentieth century. It will be
essential reading for historians of political thought and for those
interested in the development of key ideas in theology,
international law and international relations.
This is the first detailed study in any language of the single most
influential theory of the modern state: Samuel von Pufendorf's
account of the state as a 'moral person'. Ben Holland reconstructs
the theological and political contexts in and for which Pufendorf
conceived of the state as being a person. Pufendorf took up an
early Christian conception of personality and a medieval conception
of freedom in order to fashion a theory of the state appropriate to
continental Europe, and which could head off some of the absolutist
implications of a rival theory of state personality, that of
Hobbes. The book traces the fate of the concept in the hands of
others - international lawyers, moral philosophers and
revolutionaries - until the early twentieth century. It will be
essential reading for historians of political thought and for those
interested in the development of key ideas in theology,
international law and international relations.
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