Summary Of "The Political And The Politics" By Emilia Castorina - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author. THE POLITICAL AND THE POLITICSTHE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE POLITICAL -THE POLITICAL NATURE OF MAN- AND THE POLITICS -THE PROFESSION OF "POLITIAN"- IS ANALYZED. I. The political as democratization1. Producers and rulersIn the Greek society prior to the Athenian polis -the so-called "Homeric society"-, public political life was considered secondary to private life, where aristocratic hierarchies ruled based on customs and tribal law.
The transition to the polis occurred when citizenship replaced kinship.