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One of the most widely studied texts of ancient philosophy and politics, Plato's Laws is his last and most substantial dialogue, debating crucial questions on the subject of law-giving and education. This two-volume edition of 1921 was prepared by the classicist Edwin Bourdieu England (1847-1936), who describes the dialogue as 'the treasury of pregnant truths which Plato in extreme old age left ... as his last legacy to humanity'. Generally held to have been written after Plato's failed attempt to influence Syracusan politics, it concerns the just city and its constitution, including discussions of divine revelation, the role of intelligence in the creation of laws, and natural law itself. This edition comprises a short introduction, England's helpful analyses, the Greek text of the dialogue, and extensive notes. Volume 1 is devoted to Books 1-6.

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« Cet ouvrage souhaite mettre en évidence les apports de l'anthropologie politique aux études visant à une meilleure délimitation, et à une meilleure connaissance, du champ politique. Il définit un mode de repérage, et donne ainsi une réponse à la critique des spécialistes reprochant aux anthropologues politistes d'orienter leurs efforts vers un objet mal déterminé. Il envisage le rapport du pouvoir aux structures élémentaires qui lui fournissent sa première assise, aux types de stratification sociale qui le rendent nécessaire, aux rituels qui assurent son enracinement dans le sacré et interviennent dans ses stratégies. [Il] montre que les sociétés humaines produisent toutes du politique et qu'elles sont toutes ouvertes aux vicissitudes de l'histoire. Par là même, les préoccupations de la philosophie politique sont retrouvées et d'une certaine manière renouvelées. » Longtemps considérée comme une spécialisation marginale de l'anthropologie, cette discipline neuve est un nouveau mode d'appréhension de la réalité politique, elle induit une nouvelle représentation scientifique des sociétés, y compris des sociétés qualifiées de primitives. Le politique n'est pas situé sur le terrain des institutions formelles mais sur celui des actions visant à maintenir ou modifier l'ordre établi.

Political anthropology. --- State, The.

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State, The --- Origin --- China --- History

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State, The / Ancient China / czenas --- Ancient civilization / history / czenas

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"This book analyses the emerging practice in the post-Cold War era of the creation of a democratic political system along with the creation of new states. The existing literature either tends to conflate self-determination and democracy or dismisses the legal relevance of the emerging practice on the basis that democracy is not a statehood criterion. Such arguments are simplistic. The statehood criteria in contemporary international law are largely irrelevant and do not automatically or self-evidently determine whether or not an entity has emerged as a new state. The question to be asked, therefore, is not whether democracy has become a statehood criterion. The emergence of new states is rather a law-governed political process in which certain requirements regarding the type of a government may be imposed internationally. And in this process the introduction of a democratic political system is equally as relevant or irrelevant as the statehood criteria. The book demonstrates that via the right of self-determination the law of statehood requires state creation to be a democratic process, but that this requirement should not be interpreted too broadly. The democratic process in this context governs independence referenda and does not interfere with the choice of a political system."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Democracy. --- International law. --- Self-determination, National. --- State, The.