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Sosenkov, F. S.
On the Problems of Isocrates’ Political
and Legal Views on Territorial Integrity
// Politics and Society.
2014. № 2.
P. 248-251.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=54199
Sosenkov, F. S. On the Problems of Isocrates’ Political
and Legal Views on Territorial Integrity
Abstract:
The article is devoted to the political and legal views of a famous philosopher Isocrates living in Athens. The author of the
article underlines that it is quite a new subject of research in studies of Ancient Greek political and legal traditions. Due to the fact
that Ancient Greece consisted of polises back in those times, so far the issues of state unity have being mostly revealed in terms of
spiritual but not territorial integrity (in particular, in Plato’s and Aristotle’s works). The author of the article analyzes the speech
for Archidamus written by Isocrates to prove the rights of Sparta to become independent from Messenia. Based on that, the author
defi nes Isocrates’ arguments for retaining territories. The majority of these arguments are quite specifi c and applicable only to the
states of the ancient world. These include legends (mythology), decisions of an oracle, legality and fairness of territory seizure as
a result of a war, the length of ownership of territories and the absence of objections from neighboring states. Special attention is
paid to the absence of mechanisms facilitating the integration of the state and therefore military power being the main way to retain
territories in the ancient world. The author concludes that the aforesaid speech had particular political tasks to solve and in
that speech Isocrates was one of the fi rst to express his idea of the territorial integrity and protection of a state.
Keywords:
territorial integrity, Isocrates, national domain, state borders, state unity, statehood, Ancient Greece, Sparta, Messenia, war.
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