Monarchy
by Dante Alighieri
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This book, first published in 1996, was the first new translation for forty years of a fascinating work of political theory. Dante's Monarchy addresses the fundamental question of what form of political organization best suits human nature; it embodies a political vision of startling originality and power, and illuminates the intellectual interests and achievements of one of the world's great poets. Prue Shaw's translation is accompanied by a full introduction and notes, which provide a show more complete guide to the text, and which place Monarchy in the context of Dante's life and work. show lessTags
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This book seems to have made it to the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought mostly on the author's poetic merits. It's hard to believe that it would generate much interest on its own. The author had read Aristotle thoroughly and understood his logic, but his own contribution to political thought is meagre. He constructs silly syllogisms to prove that monarchy is necessary, that the Roman people took their empire by right, and that the authority of the monarch comes directly from god. He doesn't scrutinize the assumptions behind his syllogistic premises at all. This book may be of some interest as an illustration of how much the Bible limited medieval thought, but that's about it.
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"De monarchia" je podeljena u tri knjige u kojima Dante postavlja i daje odgovor na tri osnovna pitanja. Da li je monarhija, vladavina jednog vladara, neophodna za svetsko dobro, a to je sveopšti mir, odnosno, vaspostavljeni pax Augusta? Da li je rimski narod, po pravu, odnosno, Božijom voljom, sebi prisvojio dužnost i dostojanstvo monarha? I na koncu, da li Imperator Romanorum prima show more dostojanstvo neposredno od Boga? Ovo su ujedno bila suštinska pitanja oko kojih se i vodila duhovna i fizička borba između gibelina i gvelfa, viteštva i klera, carstva i crkve, careva i papa. Danteov odgovor, odgovor iniciranog koji je «očima uma prodro u srž stvari», na sva tri pitanja jeste potvrdan, a zbog ove potvrde i zbog teza koje se iznose u delu, najveći evropski pesnik je nakon smrti (Ravena, 1321.) optužen za averoizam, a De monarchia je bila proglašena za jeretičko delo i 1329. godine javno je spaljena po nalogu pape Jovana XXII (1316 – 1334.) Godine 1564. ovaj značajni filozofski spis srednjeg veka crkva je uvela u svoj Popis zabranjenih knjiga (Index Librorum Prohibitorum) odakle je uklonjena tek 1881. I napokon, gotovo nakon sedam vekova od besanih noći u kojima je ispisivao retke ovog «gibelinskog manifesta», Monarhija Dantea Aligijerija je dostupna i čitaocima s prostora bivšeg rimskog, romejskog i Dušanovog carstva. show less
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- Monarchy
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- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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