cam a22 4500 551393432 CHVBK 20201114035245.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 170105s2017 nyu sb 001 0 eng d 2016037118 978-0-19-063631-9 (hardback) (SERSOL)ssj0001771446 (WaSeSS)ssj0001771446 DLC eng DLC DLC WaSeSS rda JA51 .G73 2017 320.01 23 POL010000 POL016000 bisacsh Gray Stuart A defense of rule origins of political thought in Greece and India Stuart Gray New York, NY Oxford University Press 2017 1 online resource (xxvi, 274 pages) text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-256) and index. Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Historical-Comparative Political Theory -- Chapter 1: Homer: Ruling as Distinction -- Chapter 2: Hesiod: Critique, Poetic Justice, and the Increasing Anthropocentrism of Greek Rule -- Chapter 3: Vedic Political Thought: Hierarchy, Connectedness, and Cosmology -- Chapter 4: Vedic Samhitas and Brahmanas: Ruling as Stewardship -- Chapter 5: Comparative Considerations on the Meaning of Rule -- Conclusion: Panocracy as a New Vision of Rule -- Notes -- References -- Index. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. "At its core, politics is all about relations of rule. Accordingly one of the central preoccupations of political theory is what it means for human beings to rule over one another or share in a process of ruling. While political theorists tend to regard rule as a necessary evil, this book aims to explain how rule need not be understood as anathema to political life. Rather, by looking at some of the earliest traditions of political thought we can rethink rule in ways that evoke stewardship rather than domination. Gray argues that hierarchical ideas about rule coevolved with political divisions between the human and non-human in western theory. The earliest discernible Greek thought advanced an instrumental relationship between humans and their environment, a position that has persisted into our current age. While this seems a defensible position, this book points out that such instrumental understandings of the nonhuman world have gotten us into serious trouble, including problems of deforestation, global warming, rising sea levels, species loss, and peak oil. To rethink the concept of rule, the book turns to early Indian political thought that suggests that rule is a relationship predicated on stewardship. The book compares these two traditions of thought in order to suggest that we have a normative duty to the environment, and thus to act in a way that takes the interests of non-human nature into account. Basing his argument on his own original translations of primary sources in ancient Greek and Sanskrit, the author shows when and how early concepts of rule evolved to justify divisions between the human and nonhuman. In doing so, he argues for a reconsideration of our duties toward the nonhuman natural world"-- Political science Philosophy Political science Greece History Political science India History POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General bisacsh https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190636319.001.0001/acprof-9780190636319 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science Oxford Scholarship Online E-Books von 360MarcUpdates IDSBB B405 B405 405VT NELB4051808 IDSBB 100 1- Gray Stuart IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190636319.001.0001/acprof-9780190636319 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 483103322