مفهوم الدولة بين الفكر الإسلامي والفكر الإغريقي

Abstract

This thesis discussed the issue of state concept between the Islamic ideology and the Greek ideology for the importance of this issue in our recent time for the events and the challenges the societies and the states face regarding the definition of state concept and the state features since Plato claimed that justice is not the rule of the more powerful, people started to issue their verdict on the state based on the wisdom of the higher objectives the state works on protecting, and the fact is that the human brain started to refuse the idea saying that state monopoly of the mandatory power can be protected regardless the objectives that the state tries to achieve and we accept the opinion of Aristotle that the state arises to attain good life and we insist as Hobbes insisted before that a civilization may not arise if the state did not assure the required security depending on its control on life and death and we agree with what Locke said that the existence of a public ruling apparatus the persons are accepting its works is the thing that entitles us our life right and freedom and to the ownership of the things without which our life would be hard and miserable, and Rousseau concluded that the persons subject to its laws may enjoy some freedom more than they enjoyed in the previous society to the civil society, and in this regard Hegel wrote a famous statement as he said “state is the holly idea living above the ground” and he also said “the person gets his value from getting integrated in the activity sides the state conducts”. May be a philosopher like Burke sees the state as