Elemente de istorie a administrației (2). Organizarea separațiilor. Reflecții pe marginea unui eseu de Pierre Manent

Abstract

How can we live together? It is a question that Pierre Manent is raising in one of his pathbreaking works. One of his answers is because we learned to create lines of separations. We created an instru­ment that is above our religious beliefs: the state. The importance of this accomplishment is obvious if we are looking at those polities in which the state is still imposing a unique religion. Furthermore, one of the main characteristics of our modern societies is the separation between state and politics. This sep­aration is directly linked with our statute of citizens with equal rights, irrespective of our political beliefs.

Keywords

• state
• church
• politics
• empire
• feudalism
• modernity.