From 47cf4514c4b288f490b510a619f2acfd88e2137c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Gauthier Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 22:25:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] staging posts for later this month --- content/post/the-one,-the-many,-and-the-liberal.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/post/the-one,-the-many,-and-the-liberal.md b/content/post/the-one,-the-many,-and-the-liberal.md index 1dd94a0..3aeeae2 100644 --- a/content/post/the-one,-the-many,-and-the-liberal.md +++ b/content/post/the-one,-the-many,-and-the-liberal.md @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ However, while the temporary resurgence of Platonism did reintroduce the absolut Later, Dante, borrowing heavily (though only implicitly) from Plotinus in his 1321 essay *De Monarchia*, makes a much more vigorous attempt to reframe Aristotle's Politics into a doctrine of right order, according to the principle of unity understood as God himself. -> *"[Aristotle] asserts that when several things are ordained for one end, one of them must regulate or rule, and the others must submit to regulation or rule... If we consider the individual man, we shall see that this applies to him, for, when all his faculties are ordered for his happiness, the intellectual faculty itself is regulator and ruler of all others; in no way else can man attain to happiness.... We are now agreed that the whole human race is ordered for one end... it is meet, therefore, that the leader and lord be one... [and] for the well being of the world there is needed a Monarchy..."* De Regno, 1267 +> *"[Aristotle] asserts that when several things are ordained for one end, one of them must regulate or rule, and the others must submit to regulation or rule... If we consider the individual man, we shall see that this applies to him, for, when all his faculties are ordered for his happiness, the intellectual faculty itself is regulator and ruler of all others; in no way else can man attain to happiness.... We are now agreed that the whole human race is ordered for one end... it is meet, therefore, that the leader and lord be one... [and] for the well being of the world there is needed a Monarchy..."* Dante, De Monarchia, 1321 And the chief monarch, of course, is God: