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THE STOICS AND THE STATE - JULA WILDBERGER KART...

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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