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This detailed analysis establishes John Selden as one of the most interesting and important early modern political theorists.
Author : Ofir Haivry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107011345
This detailed analysis establishes John Selden as one of the most interesting and important early modern political theorists.
Author : Yechiel M. Leiter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108428185
John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?
Author : Eric Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674050587
According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources that provoked this radical transformation. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Christian scholars began to regard the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution designed by God for the children of Israel. Newly available rabbinic materials became authoritative guides to the institutions and practices of the perfect republic. This thinking resulted in a sweeping reorientation of political commitments. In the book’s central chapters, Nelson identifies three transformative claims introduced into European political theory by the Hebrew revival: the argument that republics are the only legitimate regimes; the idea that the state should coercively maintain an egalitarian distribution of property; and the belief that a godly republic would tolerate religious diversity. One major consequence of Nelson’s work is that the revolutionary politics of John Milton, James Harrington, and Thomas Hobbes appear in a brand-new light. Nelson demonstrates that central features of modern political thought emerged from an attempt to emulate a constitution designed by God. This paradox, a reminder that while we may live in a secular age, we owe our politics to an age of religious fervor, in turn illuminates fault lines in contemporary political discourse.
Author : James Tully
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 1982-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521271400
John Locke's theory of property is perhaps the most distinctive and the most influential aspect of his political theory. In this book James Tully uses an hermeneutical and analytical approach to offer a revolutionary revision of early modern theories of property, focusing particularly on that of Locke. Setting his analysis within the intellectual context of the seventeenth century, Professor Tully overturns the standard interpretations of Locke's theory, showing that it is not a justification of private property. Instead he shows it to be a theory of individual use rights within a framework of inclusive claim rights. He links Locke's conception of rights not merely to his ethical theory, but to the central arguments of his epistemology, and illuminates the way in which Locke's theory is tied to his metaphysical views of God and man, his theory of revolution and his account of a legitimate polity.
Author : Andrew Sharp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 1998-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521625111
The Levellers were a crucial component of a radically democratic movement during the civil wars in seventeenth-century England. This was to be democratic at a time when the very idea of democracy conjured up nothing good; with its suggestion of anarchy and the 'levelling' of distinctions in rank and of property, even the holding of women in common. This collection of thirteen fully annotated Leveller writings, including their famous Agreements of the People, is important as a contribution not only to the understanding of the English civil wars, but also of democratic theory. The editor's introduction sets the Leveller ideas in their context and, together with a chronology, short biographies of the leading figures and a guide to further reading, will be of interest to students of the English civil wars, the history of political thought and the history of democratic ideas.
Author : Ellen Meiksins Wood
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1844677524
The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment have all been attributed to the “early modern” period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left a rich and provocative legacy of political ideas unmatched in Western history. The concepts of liberty, equality, property, human rights and revolution born in those turbulent centuries continue to shape, and to limit, political discourse today. Assessing the work and background of figures such as Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Spinoza, the Levellers, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Ellen Wood vividly explores the ideas of the canonical thinkers, not as philosophical abstractions but as passionately engaged responses to the social conflicts of their day.
Author : Richard Tuck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521285094
The origins of natural rights theories in medieval Europe and their development in the seventeenth century.
Author : John Neville Figgis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Don Garrett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 1995-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139824988
Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza has been one of the most inspiring and influential philosophers of the modern era, yet also one of the most difficult and most frequently misunderstood. Spinoza sought to unify mind and body, science and religion, and to derive an ethics of reason, virtue, and freedom 'in geometrical order' from a monistic metaphysics. Of all the philosophical systems of the seventeenth century it is his that speaks most deeply to the twentieth century. The essays in this volume provide a clear and systematic exegesis of Spinoza's thought informed by the most recent scholarship. They cover his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, psychology, ethics, political theory, theology, and scriptural interpretation, as well as his life and influence on later thinkers.
Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Revolutions
ISBN :