The concept of political science during the Sixteenth Century

Authors

  • Rafael Ramis-Barceló Universitat de les Illes Balears, IEHM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rep.185.03

Keywords:

Political science, Begriffsgeschichte, Sixteenth Century, Aristotelianism, Bodin.

Abstract

This paper, following the methodology of conceptual history, demonstrates the uses of the concept “political science” during the Sixteenth Century. A periodisation is proposed from the Late Medieval Aristotelian context to the translation into vernacular languages, at the end of the Sixteenth Century. Through this periodisation, it can be seen that the notion of “political science” came to unseat the concepts of civil knowledge typical of the Roman tradition and ended up positing itself as an autonomous knowledge, within the framework of the flourishing State.

Published

2019-09-30

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Section

ARTICLES