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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 1 / 2009  
         
  Article:   BETWEEN THE PLATONIC REPUBLIC AND THE EXCREMENT OF ROMULUS: SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE INTELLECTUAL IN LIPSIUS POLICY / ENTRE LA REPUBLIQUE PLATONICIENNE ET LES EXCREMENTS DE ROMULUS: AUTOPORTRAIT DE L’INTELLECTUEL DANS LA POLITIQUE DE LIPSE.

Authors:  CLAUDIU GAIU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Justus Lipsius’s Six Books of Politics is possibly the most influential early modern treatise of the art of politics. Lipsius writes against Machiavelli but draws on Tacitus, and proposes a radical brand of realism: we no longer live in Plato’s republic and must make do with «Romulus’s excrements». Through style and conception, the treatise brings to the fore an unexpected political persona: the intellectual.

Keywords: Justus Lipsius, politics, neostoicism, tacticism, prudence 		 
         
     
         
         
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