EL BUEN GOBERNANTE EN LOS MORALIA POLÍTICOS DE PLUTARCO
Ricardo Rovira-Reich2011
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Abstract
: The deteriorating international political situation shows the need that those who exercise political rule should possess greater technical competence and ethics. This improvement in the quality of personal and professional politicians can not be produced in a spontaneous way, but must be derived from the areas which provide with human and technical training, such as universities, foundations supporting political parties, cultural and ecclesiastical institutions, etc. It is therefore necessary to organize management systems for policy development, as it has been done for corporate governance. In recent years, it has been demonstrated that one appropriate way to find inspiration and support in consolidated experiences is to study how the formation of good government in the Greco-Roman antiquity was designed. This thesis has been an exploration of training systems for good governance in Greece and Rome, then, it has been carefully studied in Plutarch, who has been named the «classic among classics», how he conceived training for good governance and the conditions that the good governor had to own. We carefully analyze the first four Parallel Lives (Theseus, Romulus, Numa and Lycurgus), and afterwards we addressed the five political Moralia, establishing the theoretical basis of the practice shown in the Parallel Lives. In the Conclusions we put forward the qualities and virtues which good leaders must have, according to the classics, and the criteria for good government of Plutarch, who knew no Christianism at his time, are comparable with the spirit of wisdom that Late Antiquity required and Christianized and Specula principis of the Middle Ages. Key words: good governor, Greco-Roman antiquity, education, Plutarch.
