Open Accessrepublicanism of Coluccio Salutati and its Augustinian influence
Author(s) -
Marcone Costa Cerqueira
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
veritas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1984-6746
pISSN - 0042-3955
DOI - 10.15448/1984-6746.2021.1.39009
Subject(s) - humanism , the republic , perspective (graphical) , politics , the renaissance , disposition , law , human life , connection (principal bundle) , philosophy , sociology , epistemology , environmental ethics , political science , history , art , art history , humanity , structural engineering , visual arts , engineering
In this brief article we will seek to support the thesis that there is in the thought of Coluccio Salutati, 14th century Florentine chancellor and prominent humanist, a clear republicanism that turns to the issue of the freedom of the republic and the active life of the individuals participating in it. However, in connection with this demonstration, we will also maintain that such republicanism has strong traces of Augustinian influence, mainly in view of the disposition of laws in the political arrangement, as well as the relationship between active life and the search for a human being’s own good. In view of this, we intend to demonstrate that, in general, Salutati’s Renaissance republicanism turns to the defence of the republic, its freedom and its characteristic of the proper scenario for the active life of individuals, however, it still maintains an ethical-political perspective typical of the medieval period, centrally influenced by Augustinian thought.