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Comment: “Sin, therefore is the mother of servitude, and first cause of men’s subjection to men.” (St. Augustjne)

  • UPSC 1997
  • Western Political Thought

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The sentence is an older English rendering of prima ergo servitutis causa peccatum est from St. Augustine of Hippo's City of God (De Civitate Dei, 413–426), Book XIX, chapter 15. Written after the Visigoth Alaric I sacked Rome in 410, it denies that man's domination of man is natural. Slavery and coercive rule are penal…

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  • The Argument in XIX.15
  • From Slavery to the State
  • The Case For It
  • Critique
  • Conclusion
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