Aristocracy and Nobility in Dante Alighieri
Moisés Romanazzi TÔRRES
Original title: Aristocracia e Nobreza em Dante Alighieri
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Aristocracy, Dante Alighieri, Nobility.
One of the essential elements of the whole Political Philosophy of Dante Alighieri was your considerations about the aristocracy and the nobility. For him, the two notions are different although in a certain way they correspond to the same matters. This aristocracy, however, it will only reach the divine talent that is the true nobility if it be educated according to the parameters of the Aristotelian philosophy. It is this, in fact, the ethical theme of the Convivio. In Commedia, Dante persists in these ideas. It is exactly for this reason that he reserves the Limbo the great wise persons of the Antiquity. In the one of Monarchia, he treats of the relationships between the supreme nobleman, the emperor, and the princes, the private noblemen that lead the human crowds.
Notion of spiritual aristocracy in the first book of Kuzari
Rosa PLANAS FERRER
Original title: El concepte d’aristocràcia espiritual en el llibre primer del Kuzari
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Aristocracy, Halevi, Judaism, Kuzari, controversy.
The objective of the following work is showing, through the First Book of Kuzari, by Iehuda Halevi, firstly translated into Catalonian by Rabbi Jordi Gendra, one of the first formulations of the aristocratic origin of the Jewish population, defended by one of the most important poets of Judaism during the Jewish Diaspora. The book explains that through a divine selection, Israel is constituted as the authentic aristocracy of the world, due to its condition of a prophetic population it is situated over the rest of populations and in the Creational scale it’s only superadded by angels.
Strategies of alliance and social reproduction in Leon medieval aristocracy: the Flaínez (10th-11th centuries)
Mariel V. PÉREZ
Original title: Estrategias de alianza y reproducción social en la aristocracia medieval leonesa: los Flaínez (siglos X-XI)
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Alliance, Aristocracy, Kingdom of Leon, Social reproduction.
In this article we will analyze the strategies of alliance of Leon medieval aristocracy, with the intention of revealing the important function they carried out in the social reproduction of the ruling class. We will focus the study in the Flaínez family, one of the most eminent aristocratic groups in the Kingdom of León during the 10th and 11th centuries.
The passions in Plato's The Republic and Ion: possibilities of philosophical inquiry
Jan G. J. TER REEGEN and Ana Alice MENESCAL
Original title: As paixões em A República e Íon de Platão: possibilidades do pensar filosófico
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Aristocracy, Ion, Passions, Plato, Republic.
This article analyzes Plato's arguments regarding passions. In Ion, Plato proposes that passions are something poetic, beautiful and necessary to man, in The Republic something that takes man away from the path of reason, making him lose his strength. That is why the philosopher defends the banishment of poets from his republic. It is worth noting that The Republic is one of the texts that best reflects the aristocratic origin of Plato. The object of analysis proposed here are the passions in two dialogues: a Socratic (Ion) one and another of the philosopher’s maturity (The Republic).
