Özet
Auctoritas and potestas, which emerged as political, social, and legal concepts in the ancient Rome, are used to describe “the authority and the sanctioning power of authority”, when taken it together. As it is evaluated in the political context of the Christian doctrine in the Middle Ages, when there was a vacuum of “political power” in Europe with the weakening of the Roman Empire, Christianity firstly used the phenomena of auctoritas and potestas to protect itself institutionally from “secular” power centers and then to claim “sovereignty” against these secular powers. The idea developed by Pope Gelasius is important, that who compared “the sacred authority of bishops (auctoritas)” with “the royal power (potestas)” and that the sacred authority of bishops is of a higher quality than royal power. By the transformation in the theoretical and practical contexts of the modern period and the ideas on the ownership of the power that were put forward by such thinkers as Bodin, Hobbes, and Rousseau, the concepts of auctoritas and potestas have undergone changes. It is paid attention to the historical limitation of the study, and the dimension of debate that the subject came to after entering the modern period was not discussed in the study as a preference.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Siyasal iktidar, auctoritas, potestas, otorite, Batı siyasal düşünceler tarihi.
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