Article ID: CBB001201205

Jean Bodin on Oeconomics and Politics (2014)

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Challenging the common conception of Jean Bodin as an `anti-Aristotelian' thinker, this article places Bodin's political thought in the context of oeconomics---the science, or art of the household---as it had developed in medieval and Renaissance commentaries on Aristotle's practical philosophy. The article argues that he thereby took part in a longstanding discussion in European political thought which saw the household as possessing a political dimension. Bodin's thought on the family is central to both his universal claims pertaining to his notion of the political and his more particular interest in sovereignty and the origins of absolutism. The article explores Bodin's analysis of the household as the starting point of his inquiry into the nature of a commonwealth and the foundation of his conception of the state; it examines the relationship of la police and l'oeconomie in detail, and argues that the conjugal relationship is the determinant for Bodin's conception of absolute rule and of the origins of supreme power.

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Authors & Contributors
Opitz, Donald Luke
Granada, Miguel A.
Koganzon, Rita
Elizabeth LaCouture
Carlstedt, Anna
Ward, Ann
Concepts
Households
Family
Aristotelianism
Home economics
Science and politics
Science and culture
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
19th century
20th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
France
United States
Europe
Great Britain
Toulouse (France)
England
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