{"product_id":"the-just-state-isbn-9781118634684","title":"The Just State","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intellectual history of one of the most important contributions to Western society\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Just State\u003c\/i\u003e explores influential Greek and Roman ideas about justice and their institutional context, and discusses their legacy in later political thought. Bringing Greco-Roman and modern ideas into conversation with each other, Benjamin Straumann traces the history of ancient political thought by focusing on classical ideas about justice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a readable narrative style, Straumann places Greek and Roman theories of justice in their historical context, starting from Homer and the pre-Socratic period through to the later Roman Empire, and outlines the respective contribution of the Greek and Roman traditions of thinking about justice to early modern and Enlightenment political thought. Concise chapters address Athenian democracy, the Sophist movement, the political philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, the origins of constitutionalism in the Roman Republic, classical influences on the American and French revolutions, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighlighting how modern debates on justice can be enriched by an engagement with their classical foundations, \u003ci\u003eThe Just State:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the impact of Greek and Roman political thought on modern ideas and institutions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the emergence of the city-state and the origins of Greek political philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDescribes the political ideas of the Hellenistic philosophical schools, such as the Stoic idea of natural law\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSurveys the political philosophy found in influential works by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, St. Augustine, and other classical thinkers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the reception history of Roman ideas about justice from the re-discovery of the Roman law of the Digest c. 1100 CE to early modern thought about politics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Just State: Greek and Roman Theories of Justice and their Legacy in Western Thought\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent textbook for undergraduate classes on the history of political thought and graduate seminars on classical political theory and ancient philosophy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaps and Figures xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations and Text Editions xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: Why Greeks and Romans? Why Ideas? 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Gradual Encroachment of Ideas 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Greeks and Romans? 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Use and Energy of Ideas and Concepts 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cult of Contingency, or: Is Everything Constructed? 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverview of Contents 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Greek Debate 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Polis, Equality, and the Growth of Political Thought 17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe World of Homer’s Poems and the Emergence of Greek Political Life 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHesiod’s Justice 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ancient Near Eastern Context 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Polis and Greek Colonization 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Mere Spider’s Web? Solon and the Rise of Written Law 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Athenian Democracy, Early Antidemocratic and Democratic Thought, and the Sophist Movement 38\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical Background: Athenian Democracy in Practice in the Fifth Century 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAntidemocratic Sentiment and Early Elements of Democratic Theory 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAccountability 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sophists 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Knowledge, Paternalistic Justice, and Law: Plato 56\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Republic, a Theory of Justice? 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ideal State: Women, Communism, Rule of Reason 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlato and Democracy 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlato, the Law and the Laws 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 The State as Teacher: Aristotle 78\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Unity of Politics and Ethics 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotle’s Criticism of Plato and His Views on Women and Slavery 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJustice and the Classification of Constitutions 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs Aristotle’s Best State Just? 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Second-Best: Democracy, Law, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotle and Liberalism 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Epicurean Contract and Stoic Natural Law 103\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpicurean Ideas about Justice as Contract 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Stoics on Ethics and Politics 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Goods Are Relevant? 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStoic Antipolitics? 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEgalitarianism and Cosmopolitanism 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Idea: Natural Law 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDid the Stoics Have the Concept of Rights? 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Roman Contribution 119\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The Roman Republic and the Origins of Constitutionalism 121\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstitutional Background: The Popular Assemblies 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstitutional Background: The Magistrates and the Right of Appeal 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstitutional Background: The Senate 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCriminal Courts 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstitutional Conflict and the Emergence of Constitutionalism 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolybius on Rome’s Well-Balanced Constitution 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Ambassador Conception of Representation 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Constitutional Machine Runs Itself (Until It Does Not) 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: The Achaean League, an Early Model of Federalism 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Justice, Not Happiness: Cicero’s Roman Political Thought 145\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoes this Egalitarian Anthropology Imply the Equality of Women? 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCicero’s Theory of the State 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCicero’s Constitutionalism 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Theory of Justice? Cicero on the Just State 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eControlling the State: The State as a Guarantor of Rights 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eControlling the State: Property Rights and Justice in the Strict Sense 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMagistrates as Representatives and Fiduciaries 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCicero’s Use of the Idea of Natural Law 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Law and Natural (Even Human?) Rights Outside the State 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 The Principate, the Rise of Christianity, and Augustine’s Peace 166\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAugustus and the Principate: Autocracy or Legal Order? 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Christianity 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLactantius 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmbrose 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tranquility of Order: Augustine 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJust War and Religious Toleration 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Ancient and Modern Justice: Virtue, Peace, or Rights? 187\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Greek Justice: Virtue and the Common Good 189\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Aquinas and Aristotelian Theory 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProperty and the Common Good 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoes the Common Good Imply Justice or Justice the Common Good? 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Legacy of Perfectionism 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Roman Justice: Law and Rights 203\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rediscovery of Roman Law 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe State of Nature 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Natural Law for the State of Nature 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSovereignty and Government 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Roman Tradition in the Eighteenth Century 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Natural Law and Roman Law 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Ideas in Action: The Atlantic Revolutions 220\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe “Real American Revolution” 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAncient Founders and American Constitution-Making 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe French Experience 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRousseau, Sparta, and Rome 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRights Declarations and Constitutions 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImplications and Consequences: Slavery, Women, Property 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Three Traditions of Virtue, Peace, and Justice 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 260\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBENJAMIN STRAUMANN\u003c\/b\u003e is ERC Professor of History at the University of Zurich and Research Professor of Classics at New York University. He is also Alberico Gentili Senior Fellow at New York University School of Law. His publications include \u003ci\u003eRoman\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaw in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius’ Natural Law\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge, 2015)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCrisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford, 2016).   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy should we engage with ideas about politics from hundreds or thousands of years ago?\u003cbr\u003e Why not just focus on what historical figures actually did, rather than on what they thought?\u003cbr\u003e How can Greek and Roman political thought enrich modern debates on the nature of justice?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdeas about political and legal order are a vital contribution of Greco-Roman antiquity to the Western tradition—many of our own assumptions about politics and justice are directly influenced by classical political thought and the institutions of ancient city-states and empires. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Just State\u003c\/i\u003e, noted historian Benjamin Straumann explores Greek and Roman ideas about the nature of justice, describes their institutional context, and discusses their legacy in later political thought. With a clear and accessible narrative style, Straumann brings Greco-Roman and modern ideas into conversation with each other to offer fresh insights into current debates about justice while illuminating their classical foundations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcise, easily accessible chapters trace the origins, development, and reception of Greek and Roman political thought from the pre-Socratic period to the Enlightenment. Topics include the Athenian democracy, the Sophist movement, the political philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, the Stoic idea of natural law, the origins of constitutionalism in the Roman Republic, classical influences on the French and American revolutions, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Just State: Greek and Roman Theories of Justice and Their Legacy in Western\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThought\u003c\/i\u003e is an ideal textbook for undergraduate classes on the history of political thought and graduate seminars on classical political theory and ancient philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990273147109,"sku":"NP9781118634684","price":38.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118634684.jpg?v=1761787151","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-just-state-isbn-9781118634684","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}