Social contract theory is incoherent and it does not work as desired. Among the most obvious disanalogies is that contracts are enforced by a third party, commonly the state. There is no such external enforcer for a constitution. Contractarian theorists typically ignore all such issues and use...

Interesante libro donde se seleccionan y comentan una serie de textos sobre la democracia, la igualdad, el pueblo, la representación, la soberanía, la república, etc. La técnica utilizada de reproducir fragmentos comentados de autores clásicos, modernos y contemporáneos resulta útil. Es...

Contraste entre las ideas de Marsilio de Padua, Huig de Groot, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Bodin y Roberto Bellarmino sobre las relaciones entre la Iglesia y el Estado. Se examina el poder del obispo de Roma, la confusión entre poder espiritual y poder temporal, la soberanía del Estado y la...

Social contract theory is incoherent and it does not work as desired. Among the most obvious disanalogies is that contracts are enforced by a third party, commonly the state. There is no such external enforcer for a constitution. Contractarian theorists typically ignore all such issues and use...

With this paper the author tries to clarify the terms of “public“ and “private“ with reference to the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and Johann Heinrich von Thünen. Both scientists showed that the individual's subsistence is very fundamental for a society and – therefore – the base of...

This article examines the relation of two models of civil science in the early modern political literature: the rhetorical science of contingency (rhetorica primaria), and mathesis politica, associated with Descartes by some early Enlightenment authors. The authors analyze the reception of the...

This book is the study of the evolution of political thought currents from ancient Greece to the so-called Third Way. Raynal, who was a lecturer in the Law Faculty of the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, focuses on Thomism, Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, Fascism, Nazism,...