Quelques réflexions sur les conditions matérielles et linguistiques de la monarchie universelle selon Nicole Oresme
Résumé
During the 1370s, Nicole Oresme (1320-1382) completed for king Charles the 5th the translation of three of Aristotle’s books (le Livre de Politiques, Livre de Ethiques et Livre de Yconomiques) which belong to the field of « mundane sciences » as he described it. This translation project manifests at the same time Oresme’s own involvement in these texts (as he punctuates Aristotle’s writings with many glosses about 14th century political debates about franciscan poverty, succession, etc), and his willingness to devise a new and accurate French lexicon for political theories. This paper focuses on one of the longest glosses of the Livre de Politiques, dedicated to the discussion of universal monarchy that particularly emphasises Oresme’s conception of a fact-based political theory – relying on historical, anthropological and linguistic backgrounds – and as the double meaning of the word « communication » (as « speech » as well as « togetherness »)
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