On Kingship, to the King of Cyprus
Author | : Saint Thomas (Aquinas) |
Publisher | : PIMS |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Kings and rulers |
ISBN | : 9780888442512 |
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Author | : Saint Thomas (Aquinas) |
Publisher | : PIMS |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Kings and rulers |
ISBN | : 9780888442512 |
Author | : Thomas Aquinas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2014-12-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692354001 |
This work by Aquinas begins by discussing different types of political systems, using the classical classifications. Only rule which is directed "towards the common good of the multitude is fit to be called kingship," he argues. Rule by one man who "seeks his own benefit from his rule and not the good of the multitude subject to him" is called a "tyrant." He argues that "Just as the government of a king is the best, so the government of a tyrant is the worst," maintaining that rule by a single individual is the most efficient for accomplishing either good or evil purposes. He then proceeds to discuss "how provision might be made that the king may not fall into tyranny," stressing education and noting that "government of the kingdom must be so arranged that opportunity to tyrannize is removed." He then proceeds to consider what honor is due to kings, to discuss the appropriate qualities of a king, and to make some points on founding and maintaining a city. Principium autem intentionis nostrae hinc sumere oportet, ut quid nomine regis intelligendum sit, exponatur.
Author | : Saint Thomas (Aquinas) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Kings and rulers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Saint Thomas (Aquinas) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Kings and rulers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : A. Azfar Moin |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231555407 |
Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspective. Editors A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern present a theoretical framework for understanding sacred kingship, which leading scholars reflect on and respond to in a series of essays. They distinguish between two separate but complementary religious tendencies, immanentism and transcendentalism, which mold kings into divinized or righteous rulers, respectively. Whereas immanence demands priestly and cosmic rites from kings to sustain the flourishing of life, transcendence turns the focus to salvation and subordinates rulers to higher ethical objectives. Secular modernity does not end the struggle between immanence and transcendence—flourishing and righteousness—but only displaces it from kings onto nations and individuals. After an essay by Marshall Sahlins that ranges from the Pacific to the Arctic, the book contains chapters on religion and kingship in settings as far-flung as ancient Egypt, classical Greece, medieval Islam, Mughal India, modern European drama, and ISIS. Sacred Kingship in World History sheds new light on how religion has constructed rulership, with implications spanning global history, religious studies, political theory, and anthropology.
Author | : Saint Thomas Aquinas |
Publisher | : Aeterna Press |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
As I was turning over in my mind what I might present to Your Majesty as a gift at once worthy of Your Royal Highness and befitting my profession and office, it seemed to me a highly appropriate offering that, for a king, I should write a book on kingship, in which, so far as my ability permits, I should carefully expound, according to the authority of Holy Writ and the teachings of the philosophers as well as the practice of worthy princes, both the origin of kingly government and the things which pertain to the office of a king, relying for the beginning, progress and accomplishment of this work, on the help of Him, Who is King of Kings, Lord of Lords, through Whom kings rule, God the Mighty Lord, King great above all gods. Aeterna Press
Author | : JaHyun Kim Haboush |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231066570 |
Originally published as A Heritage of Kings, this paperback edition contains a new preface reflecting new discoveries and updated scholarship in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Peter W. Edbury |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521458375 |
A contribution to the history of the Crusades in the Levant, this text is a scholarly study of medieval Cyprus.