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Comment: ‘The relation of the state and its parts to tranquility will be seen to be similar to the relation of the animal and its parts to -health.’ (Marsiglio of Padua)

  • UPSC 1991
  • Western Political Thought

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The sentence comes from Discourse I, chapter 2 of the Defensor Pacis (1324), in a standard English translation. Marsilius of Padua, a physician and former rector of the University of Paris, wrote it for Louis IV of Bavaria against Pope John XXII. The medical analogy has a polemical purpose: it defines peace as the state's…

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