Vilho Harle

Ideas of Social Order in the Ancient World (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Harle focuses on the perennial issue of social order by providing a comparative analysis of ideas on social order in the classical Chinese political philosophy, the Indian epic and political literature, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, the classical Greek and Roman political thought, and early Christianity. His analysis is based on the religious, political, and literary texts that represent their respective civilizations as both their major achievements and sources of shared values.

Harle maintains that two major approaches to establishing and maintaining social order exist in all levels and types of social relations: moral principles and political power. According to the principle-oriented approaches, social order will prevail if and when people follow strict moral principles. According to the contending power-oriented approach, orderly relations can only be based on the application of power by the ruler over the ruled. The principle-oriented approaches introduce a comprehensive civil society of individuals; the power-oriented approaches give major roles to the city-state, its government and relationships between them. The question of morality can be recognized also within the power-oriented approaches which either submit politics to morality or maintain that politics must be taken as nothing else than politics. This book is a contribution to peace and international studies as well as political theory and international relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313030055
• Artikelnr.: 37821451

Autorenporträt

Vilho Harle is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Lapland, Finland.

VILHO HARLE is Professor of International Relations at University of Lapland in Finland. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, the London School of Economics in 1996-1997. He has published and edited more than ten books and journal issues as well as a number of articles in scientific journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by John Galtung Preface Introduction Research Design
International Theory and Social Order in Civilizational Thought Comparison
of Civilizational Thought: The Cases and the Method Principle-Oriented
Patterns of Social Order Moral Principles as the Basis of Social Order
Dharma and Caste as the Basis of Social Order Asha and Contract as the
Basis of Social Order Torah and National Identity as the Basis of Social
Order Power-Oriented Patterns of Social Order The Ideal Community as the
Basis of Social Order The Wise King as the Basis of Social Order Education
as the Basis of Social Order Heroism as the Basis of Social Order Coercive
Power as the Basis of Social Order Peaceful External Relations as the Basis
of Social Order The Politics of Exclusion as the Basis of Social Order
Power Politics as the Basis of Social Order Conclusions: Comparison of the
Ideas of Social Order Appendix Bibliography Index