biography
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Althusius, Johannes
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known as Althaus
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pronunciation:
[altoozius]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1557–1638)
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| biography:
| Jurist, born in Diedenshausen, Germany. Under the name of Politik he developed, on the basis of Calvinist determinism, a system of social doctrine which traced all societal activity back to man's original willingness for ‘symbiosis’, a desire to share his life with others (Lat consociatio). Under this theory, the supreme state authority (Lat maiestas) is vested inalienably and indivisibly in the will of the people, or Volkssouveranität. |
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