Generally considered to be a mystic, Meister Eckhart of Hochheim (1260-1328) devotes none of his writings to political philosophy. However, his occasional use of the adverbs politice and despotice prompts the question : what is the meaning attributed to these words and how can they be contextualized in Eckhart’s metaphysical thought ? Indeed, Eckhart’s metaphysics is a deeply speculative thought aimed towards the union of man and God through the abolition of all individual distinction between them. I will attempt to demonstrate that the terms politice and despotice, as they are used to describe two types of interactions between power and subject (one that is interior to the subject and the other that remains exterior to it), must be interpreted as part of Eckhart’s understanding of nature as marked by the opposition of imperfect, mobile beings, and of perfect, immobile Being. Submission to political power is hence defined as interior submission to the supreme power of God himself.