Guild and State: European Political Thought from the Twelfth Century to the Present by Antony Black

Author:Antony Black [Black, Antony]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780765809780
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

Althusius starts by discussing the two 'private associations': the family or consociatio domestica, which is the only 'natural association' (chs ii—iii), and the college or consociatio collegarum (ch. iv). He then proceeds to the various types of public consociatio: the city (chs v—vi), the province (chs vii—viii), and finally the kingdom or universalis consociatio (chs ix—xxxix), of which the empire provides a supreme example. The basic tenets of Althusius' social and political thought are to be found in the definition of consociatio, with which the book begins.

Politics is the art of associating (consociandi) persons with a view to establishing, nourishing and preserving social life together. Hence they are called sumbiotike (cohabiters). The first proposition of politics, therefore, is consociatio; in this the cohabiters (symbiotici), by an explicit or tacit pact, undertake mutual obligation to one another to communicate to each other those things that are useful and necessary for the maintenance and sharing of social life These symbiotici are, therefore, mutual helpers who, joined and associated together by a contractual bond, share those of their resources which are helpful for the commodious conduct of the life of the spirit and body; they are sharers, participants in a communion. (Proposita igitur Politicae est consociatio, qua pacto expresso vel tacito symbiotici inter se invicem ad communicationem mutuant eorum, quae ad vitae socialis usum et consortium sunt utilia et necessaria se obligant. ... Symbiotici igitur hic sunt sumboethoi, qui vinculo pacti coniuncti et consociati communicant de suis, quae ad animi et corporis vitam commode degendam expediunt, et vicissim koinonetoi, communionis sunt participes.)

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