Concept
Feudalism
Overview
combination of legal and military customs and form of government in medieval Europe
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Possible passages
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The authority of government still continued to be, as before, too weak in the head, and too strong in the inferior members; and the excessive strength of the inferior members was the cause of the weakness of the head. After the institution of feudal subordination, the king was as incapable of restraining the violence of the great lords as before. They still continued to make war according to their own discretion…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The author is tied to Feudalism in the knowledge graph.
A third trait assigned by historians to feudalism is that the ordering of ranks centres about armed service and the relationship of armed defense and protection. I am afraid that what has already been said about the parallelism of ancient cosmology with social organization may seem a fanciful analogy; and if a comparison is also drawn in this last regard, there will be no doubt…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
States what Feudalism is; opens on Feudalism.
As arts and industry advanced, however, the authority of the chieftains gradually decayed, and the great body of the people had less time to spare for military exercises. Both the discipline and the exercise of the feudal militia, therefore, went gradually to ruin, and standing armies were gradually introduced to supply the place of it. When the expedient of a standing army, besides, had once been adopted by one…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The author is tied to Feudalism in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Feudalism
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- Karl Marx
- Renaissance
- Erich Fromm
- Peter Kropotkin
- Montesquieu
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea
- Michel Aflaq
- Andō Shōeki
Related ideas
- Manchester University Press
- Analogy
- French Revolution
- Dark Ages (historiography)
- Human rights
- Transaction Publishers
- Karl Marx
- Spring and Autumn period
- Southern United States
- Adam Smith
- Middle Ages
- Monarchy
- Marc Bloch
- Manorialism
- Normandy
- Oxford English Dictionary
- University of California Press
- Kingdom of France
- Nobility
- Social class
- Age of Enlightenment
- Cornell University Press
- Google Books
- Al-Andalus
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.