The Stoics and the State: Theory - Practice - Context
In: Staatsverständnisse v.105
Cover -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 A State? -- 1.2 The Analytical Grid -- 2. Definitions: Four Sources for a Stoic Concept of the State -- 2.1 The State of Our Sources -- 2.2 Chrysostom: "Human Beings Administrated by Law" -- 2.3 Clement of Alexandria -- 2.3.1 "Neither Expugnable nor Subjugable" -- 2.3.2 The Wise State vs. the People as an Organized Group -- 2.4 Cleanthes: A Construction for Refuge and Justice -- 2.5 Arius Didymus: Dwelling and Organized Group -- 3. A Dwelling -- 3.1 Urban Structures and Institutions -- 3.1.1 Gymnasia -- 3.1.2 Temples -- 3.1.3 Justice and the Urban Center -- 3.2 A Common Home and the Theory of Attachment -- 3.2.1 Non-instrumental sociability -- 3.2.1.1 Expansional Social Attachment -- 3.2.1.2 Essential Social Attachment -- 3.2.2 The Cosmos as a Dwelling Made for Gods and Humans -- 4. The Cosmos as a State -- 4.1 The Cosmic Home as a World State -- 4.2 Only a Comparison? -- 4.2.1 The Citizen of the Cosmos in Therapy and Exhortation -- 4.2.2 A Cosmic Model-State -- 4.3 From Household to Kingdom -- 4.3.1 Household Terminology in Stoicism -- 4.3.2 Polis or Politeia? -- 4.3.3 The Cosmic Disposition: Fate, Nature, and Providence -- 4.3.4 The Cosmic Constitution and a Rational Animal's End -- 5. The Law -- 5.1 The Definition of Law as Nature's Right Word -- 5.1.1 Law as a Prescriptive and Prohibitive Body -- 5.1.2 Fate and Seed-Description (Logos Spermatikos) -- 5.2 Justice and the Cosmic Disposition -- 5.3 Are Stoic Laws Rules? -- 5.4 Experience, Concepts, and Patterns in Nature -- 6. Inhabitants and Citizens -- 6.1 Reason as a Prerequisite for Citizenship -- 6.2 Gods -- 6.2.1 Hierarchies in the World State -- 6.2.2 Is God a Citizen Too? -- 6.3 Sages -- 6.3.1 Right Reason -- 6.3.2 Reason Twisted -- 6.4 Fools -- 6.4.1 Women -- 6.4.2 Slaves