There are several writings of philosophers of ancient Greece that have more or less intimate connections and / or aspects of similarity with economics, business culture and the executive, the science of the organization today.
This statement must not appear as forced or paradoxical, it is true that, as claimed by Carlo Natali, whereas the anthropological and political interests of the ancient philosophers and among them, in particular, those of Plato and Aristotle, "you can put together their ideas 'economic', distributed under licenses as' possessions and property ',' barter ',' the market ',' need ',' currency '' distribution ',' trade ',' rich and poor ',' alienation ',' the chrematistics', and so on " [1] .
is meant by "chrematistics" nothing but the science of an economic nature concerning the achievement and wealth management.
Certainly, the writings of ancient economic argument can hardly say the scientific management, since they do not systematically and consistently link each other but, according to the analysis conducted by Carlo Natali, remain "detached investigations, conceptual connections without precisely determinable only externally related development due to a foreign look" [2] .
however, when properly contextualized in the period in which they were developed, such writings retain their undeniable historical, political and economic interest that we see so much more motivated if you succeed, the Christmases yet to comment to that effect, to "locate them in conceptual space of their own, without being influenced by economic thought later, or to research advances, impairments or with too hasty " [3] .
The arguments are economic in nature, antiquity (sixth and fifth centuries BC) bound by the terms "oikonomos", "oikonomia", and similar.
of these terms are used to indicate "the management of the house by his wife, as his private domain" [4] .
Their use can be found also in later times, Aristotle in fact uses it in the policy to testify to the existence of a specific "oikonomia" female
"the administration too household is different in men and women, that man's job is to buy, the other keep " [5] .
However, the old becomes oikonomia, for readers and scholars of today, a practical science with the work of Xenophon and the economy. [6]
This letter, although they constitute a text often despised by the critics, who accused him of inconsistencies, contradictions and social ingenuity " [7] , received high esteem in antiquity, where it seems to be regarded as "The main manual administration of the house" [8] .
The economy is described by Xenophon as a virtue that is the result of an organic and rational knowledge.
Such a set of knowledge, it is not simply the result of an inherent positive quality, it seems also be acquired through experience.
According to the disciple of Socrates are part of that discipline the art of governing the house well, whereby the good steward produce the wealth needed to sustain the costs of administration, also achieving a financial surplus, the art that allows the good administrator to know how to govern the slaves and to lead a good relationship with his wife and their children, the art which implies the ability of those who manages to keep the furniture ordered and "find a good building to live" [9] . Current
, or rather, the adaptability of our time is the definition senofontea handheld: beyond terminology and concepts (limited to the narrow confines of home and family) used in the ancient text, one can reasonably assume a certain bijection between the need to manage a virtuous family heritage and to manage public resources properly, and is, in other words, can detect a certain similarity between the administration of the house and the broader context of management of a public organization or business ; matches, for example, could be identified between the 'set organic knowledge "in relation to the management of the house and the science of the organization and / or business economics, and coincidences of meaning can be grasped between the senofontee" virtue is not simply innate "and those who today give rise to managerial skills acquired with knowledge not only economic but also relational and legal, technological, social, and so on. According to Enrico Berti
the word economy (from the greek: oikos, home, family and nomos, law) as we understand the ancient Greeks, signifies the "administration of the house", while the modern meaning attributed to it the more extensive " administration wealth "refers to entities within larger companies such as (but not the Berti specifically mentions) or even the State [10] .
By the considerations of the scholar cited and taken the company, including the public, such a comparison today, we could now well understand the expression the 'art of governing the house well "in the sense of ability in the direction of a general organization or corporate governance, the concept of "producing the wealth needed to pay the costs of administration and achieve a surplus" we could replace the regular achievement of enterprise revenue in order to allow the same costs are incurred while providing useful to the entrepreneur in relation to "find a good building to live, finally, give it the meaning of" identify in a strategic way and not the center of the random business and the company's base. "
E 'perhaps for this reason that, as claimed by Carlo Natali, "some contemporary Xenophon affected by the insistence of the organizational skills of the owner, have decided to make' economic 's ancestor of the manuals of business management" [ 11] .
E 'hardly necessary to point out that the pure simple transpositions ancient-modern, public-private partnerships, etc.. should be made keeping in mind that the work senofontea "focuses the reader's attention on one aspect of the good host second Xenophon, to the detriment of others: knowing how to dominate others is inseparable from knowing how to control themselves, and the purpose of all this is more efficient but a more noble life " [12] .
In any case, the assets, which we mentioned above, together with others, constitute, together, we now consider typical occupations of management.
This statement must not appear as forced or paradoxical, it is true that, as claimed by Carlo Natali, whereas the anthropological and political interests of the ancient philosophers and among them, in particular, those of Plato and Aristotle, "you can put together their ideas 'economic', distributed under licenses as' possessions and property ',' barter ',' the market ',' need ',' currency '' distribution ',' trade ',' rich and poor ',' alienation ',' the chrematistics', and so on " [1] .
is meant by "chrematistics" nothing but the science of an economic nature concerning the achievement and wealth management.
Certainly, the writings of ancient economic argument can hardly say the scientific management, since they do not systematically and consistently link each other but, according to the analysis conducted by Carlo Natali, remain "detached investigations, conceptual connections without precisely determinable only externally related development due to a foreign look" [2] .
however, when properly contextualized in the period in which they were developed, such writings retain their undeniable historical, political and economic interest that we see so much more motivated if you succeed, the Christmases yet to comment to that effect, to "locate them in conceptual space of their own, without being influenced by economic thought later, or to research advances, impairments or with too hasty " [3] .
The arguments are economic in nature, antiquity (sixth and fifth centuries BC) bound by the terms "oikonomos", "oikonomia", and similar.
of these terms are used to indicate "the management of the house by his wife, as his private domain" [4] .
Their use can be found also in later times, Aristotle in fact uses it in the policy to testify to the existence of a specific "oikonomia" female
"the administration too household is different in men and women, that man's job is to buy, the other keep " [5] .
However, the old becomes oikonomia, for readers and scholars of today, a practical science with the work of Xenophon and the economy. [6]
This letter, although they constitute a text often despised by the critics, who accused him of inconsistencies, contradictions and social ingenuity " [7] , received high esteem in antiquity, where it seems to be regarded as "The main manual administration of the house" [8] .
The economy is described by Xenophon as a virtue that is the result of an organic and rational knowledge.
Such a set of knowledge, it is not simply the result of an inherent positive quality, it seems also be acquired through experience.
According to the disciple of Socrates are part of that discipline the art of governing the house well, whereby the good steward produce the wealth needed to sustain the costs of administration, also achieving a financial surplus, the art that allows the good administrator to know how to govern the slaves and to lead a good relationship with his wife and their children, the art which implies the ability of those who manages to keep the furniture ordered and "find a good building to live" [9] . Current
, or rather, the adaptability of our time is the definition senofontea handheld: beyond terminology and concepts (limited to the narrow confines of home and family) used in the ancient text, one can reasonably assume a certain bijection between the need to manage a virtuous family heritage and to manage public resources properly, and is, in other words, can detect a certain similarity between the administration of the house and the broader context of management of a public organization or business ; matches, for example, could be identified between the 'set organic knowledge "in relation to the management of the house and the science of the organization and / or business economics, and coincidences of meaning can be grasped between the senofontee" virtue is not simply innate "and those who today give rise to managerial skills acquired with knowledge not only economic but also relational and legal, technological, social, and so on. According to Enrico Berti
the word economy (from the greek: oikos, home, family and nomos, law) as we understand the ancient Greeks, signifies the "administration of the house", while the modern meaning attributed to it the more extensive " administration wealth "refers to entities within larger companies such as (but not the Berti specifically mentions) or even the State [10] .
By the considerations of the scholar cited and taken the company, including the public, such a comparison today, we could now well understand the expression the 'art of governing the house well "in the sense of ability in the direction of a general organization or corporate governance, the concept of "producing the wealth needed to pay the costs of administration and achieve a surplus" we could replace the regular achievement of enterprise revenue in order to allow the same costs are incurred while providing useful to the entrepreneur in relation to "find a good building to live, finally, give it the meaning of" identify in a strategic way and not the center of the random business and the company's base. "
E 'perhaps for this reason that, as claimed by Carlo Natali, "some contemporary Xenophon affected by the insistence of the organizational skills of the owner, have decided to make' economic 's ancestor of the manuals of business management" [ 11] .
E 'hardly necessary to point out that the pure simple transpositions ancient-modern, public-private partnerships, etc.. should be made keeping in mind that the work senofontea "focuses the reader's attention on one aspect of the good host second Xenophon, to the detriment of others: knowing how to dominate others is inseparable from knowing how to control themselves, and the purpose of all this is more efficient but a more noble life " [12] .
In any case, the assets, which we mentioned above, together with others, constitute, together, we now consider typical occupations of management.
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[1] See C. Natali (ed.), Aristotle, The Administration of the house, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1995, p. 8.
[2] Ibid .
[3] See C. Natali (ed.), Aristotle, The Administration of the house ..., p. 10
[4] Ibid .
[5] See Aristotle, Politics, Book III, Ch.4, 1277b 24-25, p.79, edited by Renato Laurenti, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2002.
[6] See C. Natali (ed.), Aristotle, The Administration of the house ..., p.18.
[7] Ibid .
[8] Ibid .
[9] See C. Natali (ed.), Aristotle, The administration of the house ..., p.20.
[10] See E. Berti, Practical Philosophy, Guida, Napoli 2004, p. 111.
[11] See C. Natali (ed.), Aristotle, The Administration of the house ..., p.21.
[12] Ibid .
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