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[edit] Despot / Despotism
Should despotism really have its own entry (as opposed to the title "Despot" which has historical significance)? It's not clear to me that the concept is sufficiently distinct from dictatorship to merit its own page.--Sjsilverman 05:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] source?
Is there a source for the following statement? "In the Orthodox Liturgy, if celebrated in Greek, the priest is addressed by the deacon as "despot" even today."--Sjsilverman 05:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] anonymous comments
I agree that despotism is similar to monarchy and aka the rulership of one man. But I must disagree in one. This mean of rulership was founded in early 15th century in Serbia at the end of the Serbian Empire. After Emperor Dushan Urosh fouth's death, his son Urosh the fifth was much to young to take over and continue the success his father made. So, the Serbian empire broke and, little after the Kosovo battle with Turks, where the great number of Serbian rulers died, Despot became the title for the ruler of the land that was smaller day after day. The last Despot in Serbia was Despot Djuradj Brankovic, and the last Capitol of midieval Serbia Smederevo.
The terms despotism comes from the french term 'despotisme' invented as part of criticisms of Louis xiv in 1690's france to designate a single ruler whose power is unconstrained by constitution or bodies within society. Earlier the English philosopher Hobbes had coined the term despotic or despotical (without a pejorative sense) to mean a ruler established by violence. Of course the author most assotiated with the term is Montesquieu who dealt with it systematcally as a catagory of government in his 1748 spirit of the Laws (a book which influenced the development of the term 'oriental despotism' extensivley). However the root for the term despotism is ancient greek 'despotes' or the master who ruled in a household of slaves or those servile in nature. However in its politcal sense this noun despot/despotes and its adjective form despotikos by aristotle who opinioned that despotic rule described not only over servants or slaves within a household but over 'barbarians' as they were, almost by almost by definition, unable to be free due to being more servile in nature than hellenes. It is important to realise the differences between 'despotism' and 'tyranny' the later of which was preffered by political scholars of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries due largley to their prefference for terminology with a Latin root (as humanists) and middle ages, during which there were only latin translations of aristotle avaliable (greek translations became avaliable once more in Europe in the fourteenth century. It is probally because of this greek root which Hobbes (a keen scholar of greek)this term in prefference of Tyranny, which had been the choice term for figures such as machiavelli and Jean Bodin.
[edit] Despotism vs Dictatorship
I am confused about the difference between a despotism and a dictatorship. They seem the same. Could someone clear that up for me.
[edit] Tyranny vs Tyrant
I'm not that up on my Wikipedia editing, so I'd probably be best posting this here for someone else to look in to...
At various points in this article, the the text 'Tyranny' and 'tyrannical' is linked to an album by the Generators called Tyranny [1] probably they should be linked to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrant ?
[edit] Neutral Point of View
I myself find the section of the article addressing Bush and Cheney's so called "regime" politically biased. This is just my opinion and I'll glady back down if others believe me incorrect, but I just wanted to put this out there.
