Comentamos mediante enlaces relevantes un texto del Libro VI de las Historias de Polibio, donde se expone una original visión sobre cómo se desarrollan los sistemas políticos. Para Polibio este proceso descansa en última instancia en las características de la naturaleza humana y de las reacciones sociales que suscita la acumulación de poder. Este pasaje es una primera exposición del desarrollo cultural humano mediante un proceso evolutivo y emergente: evolución sociocultural de instituciones y relaciones, y emergencia de instituciones complejas sobre la base de una historia y una tradición política. El razonamiento de Polibio acude con frecuencia a algunos conceptos hoy muy manejados por la sociobiología, y en este contexto actual procuramos situar este pasaje crucial.

Texto completo:

Evolución, Anaciclosis, y dialéctica social de la Historia

https://ssrn.com/abstract=4215930

Vanity Fea 5/09/2012

10 Pages Posted: 2 Nov 2022

José Angel García Landa

Universidad de Zaragoza

Date Written: September 5, 2012

English abstract: Evolution, Anacyclosis, and the Social Dialectics of History

This is a commentary, through relevant links, of a text from Book VI of Polybius's 'Histories', a passage which formulates an original view on the way political systems develop. According to Polybius, this process rests in the last analysis on the specificities of human nature, and on the social reactions resulting from the accumulation of power. This passage is an early approach to human cultural development as an evolutionary and emergent process, a sociocultural evolution of institutions and relationships, and an emergence of complex institutions on the basis of history and political traditions. Polybius refers in his reasoning to a number of concepts which are often used in contemporary sociobiology, and it is in this context that we try to place this crucial passage.

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Keywords: Cultural evolution, History, Polybius, Anacyclosis, Political theory, Emergence, Cultural development, Societies

Suggested Citation:

Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, Evolución, Anaciclosis, y dialéctica social de la Historia (Evolution, Anacyclosis, and the Social Dialectics of History) (September 5, 2012). Vanity Fea 5/09/2012, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4215930

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