Civitas e respublica nell'aristotelismo politico della prima età moderna

The so called «political Aristotelianism» was one of the most influential learned languages in early modern Europe. Really, it consisted more in a set of methodological premises than in a particular ideological claim. One of its main features was the clear distinction between the ideas of civitas and res publica, which produced two mean consequences. On one hand all right constitutional forms were to be understood as res publicae, and this conclusion had to be applied even to the monarchy. In this sense political Aristotelianism was a republican doctrine. On the other hand the idea of civitas implied that all citizens had to take part in the political life of their city even though the latter had a monarchic or an aristocratic constitution.Political Aristotelianism, Republican Theories, Citizenship, Statistics