The care of Di Pietro Carlo
PRINCIPAL OF THE GOVERNMENT
• As the book of Proverbs says: «The king's heart is in the hands of God; to everything he wants, He bends it". And the famous great monarch of the East also confesses this, Ciro, King of the Persians, with a public edict. In fact after defeating Babylon, which he had razed to the ground, as the story goes, said these words, as appears at the beginning of the Book of Ezra: «Thus says Cyrus, King of the Persians: – The Lord, the God of heaven, he has given me all the kingdoms of the earth". From this it is evident that all dominion comes from God as from the first lord: something that can be demonstrated, as Aristotle mentions, through three ways, that is, considering it as an entity, as an engine, as an end.
• Under the aspect of an entity: because all the individual entities must be traced back to the first entity, as at the beginning of every entity, just as all heat must be traced back to the heat of fire, according to Aristotle's explanations in the second book of the Metaphysics. So, for the same reason that every entity depends on the first entity, dominion will also depend on him; since it is based on being; and on an even more noble entity, How much, to dominate over men of equal nature, a man is placed before them. But from this one must not draw reason to be proud, but rather to govern his people with humanity, as Seneca says in a letter to Lucilius. This is why it is written in Ecclesiasticus: «They made you boss? Don't show pride: be among them as one of them". Therefore, as every entity depends on the first entity, which is the primary cause, so also every dominion of the creature depends on God as the first dominant and first being.
• Moreover: every plurality proceeds from the one, and is measured with unity, as the tenth book of Aristotle's First Philosophy teaches; therefore in the same way the plurality of dominants also originates from a single dominant, which is God. Precisely as in the royal court we find the respective superintendents for the various tasks, but they all depend on one, that is, by the king. Therefore Aristotle in the twelfth book of First Philosophy says that «God, that is, the first cause, he is to the entire universe as the commander, on which all the multiplicity of camps depends, it's up to the army". Therefore Moses in Exodus also calls God the leader of the people: «In your mercy – dice – you made yourself leader of the people you liberated". Therefore every dominion originates from God. Read More