The idea of a contract of government in the political theories on Empire of the 14th and 15th centuries
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18 septembre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.psorbonne.32965
- isbn: 9782859446642
- eisbn: 9791035101695
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Helmut G. Walther, « The idea of a contract of government in the political theories on Empire of the 14th and 15th centuries », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.32965
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Marsilius of Padua is perhaps the most prominent but not the most influential representative of political theory in the 14th century. In his Defensor Pacis he avoids explicitely to construct a contractual base when he presents the development of political human communities. His Aristotelian anthropological view of man as a animal sociale et politicum relies more on human experiencia than on the Aristotelian inclinatio naturalis so vehemently stressed by Aquinas and his school. Therefore you c...