Der Beziehung zwischen Religion, sozialen Strukturen und politischen Institutionen kam in menschlichen Gesellschaften seit jeher eine fundamentale Rolle zu. Die hier versammelten Aufsätze erkunden mögliche Wege, wie die philosophischen Konzeptualisierungen von Gott, Göttern und dem Göttlichen in der [...]

In this collection of essays, Aristotle's Politics, a complex text which has been the object of multiple readings and continuously stimulates new interpretative challenges, is analyzed from various points of view that range from the material transmission of the text and its controversial reception [...]

The present collection brings together some of the papers presented at the international congress Religión en Utopía (Religion in Utopia), held at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, under the auspices of the Instituto de Estudios Clásicos sobre la Sociedad y la Política 'Lucio Anneo Séneca' and [...]

During the Sixties and Seventies of the last century, the word 'utopia' acquired a positive connotation spurred on by the sudden emergence of the third world, the Marxist liberation movements and the decolonization of Africa and Asia, in so far as these processes were interpreted in Marxist terms [...]

I saggi raccolti in questo volume assumono ad oggetto la riflessione che nel mondo antico - da Omero a Filone di Alessandria, passando per i Sofisti, Platone, Aristotele, Posidonio, Lucrezio - si è sviluppata attorno all'origine della civiltà umana e delle forme culturali. La persistenza di questo [...]

Plato's political philosophy is one of the most controversial facets of ancient thought. Because of its wide influence on the political thought of the last century, most of Plato's ideas are still under debate and he is seen either as the origin of totalitarian movements or as the predecessor of the [...]

Sowohl von Totalitären, Faschisten, Kommunisten als auch von Liberalen, Demokraten, Fortschrittlichen und Konservativen gepriesen und getadelt ist Platons Politeia eine der einflußreichsten Schriften in der Geschichte der politischen Ideen. In ihren zentralen Büchern läßt Platon den Socrates die [...]