Author : William of Ockham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521358040
The key ideas on authority of a powerful and historically important thinker.
Author : Saint Francis (of Assisi)
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Church history
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Author : William (of Ockham)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 1992-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521358033
William of Ockham (c. 1285-c. 1347) was the most eminent and influential theologian and philosopher of his day, a giant in the history of political thought. He was a Franciscan friar who came to believe that the Avignonese papacy of John XXII had set out to destroy the religious ideal on which the Franciscan order was based: the complete poverty of Christ and the apostles. This is the first complete text by Ockham to be published in English. The Short Discourse is a passionate but compelling statement of Ockham's position on the most fundamental political problem of the medieval period: the relationship of supreme spiritual authority, as represented by the pope, to the autonomous secular authority claimed by the medieval empire and the emerging nation-states of Europe. Professor McGrade's introduction, and the notes on the translation make the volume wholly accessible to a modern readership, while a full bibliography and chronology are included as further aids to the reader.
Author : L. T. Hobhouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 1994-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521437264
L. T. Hobhouse's Liberalism (1911), which has acquired the status of a modern classic, is the most enduring statement of the political principles which animated British liberal social reformers in the early years of the twentieth century. While written in a popular style, it is actually a theoretical work of some subtlety, combining an historical analysis of the evolution of liberal doctrine with a philosophical discussion of the character of liberal belief, and proposing a reformulation of liberalism which emphasises community, individual welfare rights, and an activist state. This 1994 edition of the work includes a number of his other writings from the same period, and will be of interest to a broad range of students and scholars in politics and the history of political thought.
Author : Wu Jing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108831044
Wu Jing's eighth-century collection of dialogues between Emperor Taizong and his officials is a seminal work in Chinese literature addressing core themes of East Asian thinking about the politics of power. This accessible translation will be indispensable for students of East Asian and international political thought.
Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2017-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108509428
Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempts to adapt Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. They represent Cicero's understanding of government and remain his most important works of political philosophy. On the Commonwealth survives only in part, and On the Laws was never completed. The new edition of this volume has been revised throughout to take account of recent scholarship, and features a new introduction, a new bibliography, a chronological table and a biographical index. James E. G. Zetzel offers a scholarly reconstruction of the fragments of On the Commonwealth and a masterly translation of both dialogues. The texts are further supported by notes and synopsis, designed to assist students in politics, philosophy, ancient history, law and classics.
Author : David Boucher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 1997-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521459518
The British idealists made significant and lasting contributions to the social and political thought of the nineteenth century. They contributed to the evolution debate in insisting that the social organism could not be understood in naturalistic terms, but instead had to be conceived as an evolving spiritual unity. In this respect the British idealists developed a distinctive view of the state constitutive of the individual and they are commonly acknowledged as the forerunners of modern communitarian theory. Furthermore the idealists contributed to the major debates of their day, including evolution, democracy, the role of the state, education and international relations. In his introduction, David Boucher develops the themes illustrated in the writings of the British idealists. This volume also contains biographies of the British idealists which incorporate their principal works.
Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521897289
A new scholarly edition of Lincoln's writings and speeches providing fresh insight into the man, the politician and political thinker.
Author : Terence Ball
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107310679
Abraham Lincoln occupies a unique place in the American pantheon. Symbol, sage, myth and martyr, he is an American icon – Honest Abe and The Great Emancipator, a Janus-faced demigod sculpted in marble. But this is the post-assassination Lincoln. During his lifetime Lincoln elicited very different reactions. The writings and speeches presented in this scholarly edition illuminate Lincoln as a political thinker in the context of his own time and political situation. Opening with a concise yet rich introduction, the texts that follow are complete and carefully edited, with extensive annotation and footnotes to provide a clearer insight into Lincoln the man, the politician and political thinker. His views on race and slavery, on secession and civil war and on the contradiction (as his saw it) between the Declaration of Independence ('all men are created equal') and the original Constitution (which condones slavery) are laid out in Lincoln's own well-crafted words.
Author : Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 1991-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521348881
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory and the sociology of the modern state into the framework of Hegel's philosophy of history. Hegel's work has been interpreted in radically different ways, influencing many political movements from far right to far left, and is widely perceived as central to the communication tradition in modern ethical, social and political thought. This edition includes extensive editorial material informing the reader of the historical background of Hegel's text, and explaining his allusions to Roman law and other sources, making use of lecture materials which have only recently become available. The new translation is literal, readable and consistent, and will be informative and scholarly enough to serve the needs of students and specialists alike.
