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Deals with the relations between the subjects and the rulers, between the citizen and the state.

Social Ethics

Proponents of Pantheistic Theory of the State.

Plato and Hagel

He viewed the different parts of the universe as informed or unified by psychic principle, of which the individual things we see are just manifestations or extensions.

Plato

The theory to which the state has absolute power over its citizens.

State Absolutism

The supreme end of the state.

Unity of thinking and acting

Both German idealists followed by Hegel.

Fichte and Schelling

Proponent of Dialectic Idealism

Hegel

The theory that views all things as different expressions of the Idea in a continuous process of evolution.

Dialectic Idealism

It is the absolute, universa, eternal and is the one principle of all things according to Hegel.

Idea

Any measure in defiance or detriment in the rights of an individual.

Corruption

The ruler according to this theory impersonates the state, whilst he himself holds his office directly by divine right.

Divine Right Theory

Another theory is that the state owes its origin to a social contract freely enteres into by its members.

Theory of Social Contract

He devoted himself to the development of the idea in favor of absolute monarchy.

Hobbes

He interpreted the idea in terms of absolute monarchy and individualism.

Rousseau

To Hobbes the original state of nature was one of...

Continuous Warfare

"It is not true that all rights are the creation of the state. A man is a man first, and a citizen afterward. As man he has rights actual and potential; thus the state exists, not to create for they are prior to it in the order of existence but to determine them, where indeterminate, to sanction and safeguard them."

Joseph Ricaby

This theory viewed ma as naturally good, completely free and virtuous. Unfortunately, however, this utopian state of primitive man did not last.

Theory of Rousseau

A true concept of government according to this view must consider and give justice to both elements: of subjects and rulers, of governors and governed- two thing which can never be separated from each other in the realm of true politics.

The Christian Concept of the State

Two psychological principles of the christian concept of the state:

1. Man is a social being.


2. Man is not only an individual but also a person.

He has a nature and inclination for family life. He cannot live alone as an individual. To fulfill his inborn urge for happiness, he longs for group life.

Man is a Social Being

Man is not only an individual. He is also a person and as such has rights antecedent and transcendent to the state. He likewise has a destiny that lies beyond the state.

Man is a Personal Being

A contemporary philosopher.

Maritain