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Aug 1, 2019 · The Importance of the State. Whether the state is an end in itself or merely a means enabling individuals to attain their ends has been a much-disputed question. 1. Theories emphasizing the state: Ancient writers generally regarded the state as the highest aim of human life and as an end in itself.
Oct 4, 2024 · This city-state, characterized primarily by its self-sufficiency, was seen by Aristotle as the means of developing morality in the human character. The Greek idea corresponds more accurately to the modern concept of the nation—i.e., a population of a fixed area that shares a common language, culture , and history—whereas the Roman res publica , or commonwealth , is more similar to the ...
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Feb 23, 2011 · The concept of the state as a central point of reference is obviously important as well as widespread – in the UN, in sociology (which presupposes national societies), and in Rawls. But given the fact that we do not know much about the state – where it comes from, how it functions, what we can demand of it – we have not got far in analysing the state.
- Brian Barry, Marcel Wissenburg
- 2011
Jan 16, 2018 · As I argued in chapter 9, Hobbes's theory of political representation issues in the conclusion that to speak of a sovereign is to refer to a natural person (or body of persons) authorised to discharge the role of representing the person ‘by Fiction’ of the state. I now wish to extend my historical gaze and consider the origins and ...
- Quentin Skinner
- 2018
Apr 15, 2021 · Aristotle posits that the just distribution of power is contingent on the ultimate goal of the state – the achievement of the good life – and thus must be relative to the people. Thus, justice is equality for equal people, and inequality for unequal people. 2. Universal justice: what is beneficial to the common advantage and general ...
Three. aspects of this formulation set it apart as a distinctively modern conception of the. state: (i) individuals within society are presented as subjects of the state, owing duties. and their allegiance not to the person of a ruler but to the state itself; (ii) the authority.
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In this chapter and the two that follow we move into a macro‐level of analysis. The topic is the state, a multifaceted entity that requires a two‐pronged method of study: the first, to disaggregate it in aspects or dimensions that may be useful for its theoretical and empirical study and, second, afterwards, to trace its unity as such a phenomenon by means of elements that the first step ...
