The Role of the Family in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Political Philosophy
Author : Malcolm Luther Ritchie
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Families
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Author : Malcolm Luther Ritchie
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Families
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Author : Gordon J. Schochet
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
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Category : History
ISBN : 9781412835992
Available for the first time in paperback, this classic study of the relationship between paternal and political authority identifies patriachalism as a leitmotif of western social and political thought since the time of Plato and Aristotle. Gordon Schochet shows that patriarchal doctrines can be found in the writings of all major political theorists form Plato to Bodin and that almost every significant political thinker in the seventeenth century England acknowledged and addressed patriarchalism. In the Stuart period, patriarchalism was the primary alternative to social contract and populist justifications of political authority. Moreover, patriarchal power was a major presupposition of those very doctrines that were offered in opposition to it. The author demonstrates that the ideological, social structural, and philosophic roots of the patriarchal tradition are deeply embedded in the political consciousness and practices of Western Europe. In earlier political thought, familial doctrines provided anthropological accounts of the origins of political order, whereas in the Stuart period, patriarchalism was primarily a justification of political obligation. Analyzing these essential differences, Professor Schochet offers a number of sociological, and virtual disappearance of patriarchal conceptions of obligations during the seventeenth century. Untangling the patriarchal theory, he shows that it comported well with the implicit ideology and everyday life of the masses and was fully consistent with the level of historical awareness of the early modern period. The final chapter traces the ultimate demise of patriarchalism in the eighteenth century and its transformation back into a theory of political origins. In addition, the author discusses a number of important questions about the nature of political theory, how its historical documents may be analyzed, and the resort to symbols in political discourse.
Author : Eileen Hunt Botting
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791482030
Family Feuds is the first sustained comparative study of the place of the family in the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Eileen Hunt Botting argues that Wollstonecraft recognized both Rousseau's and Burke's influential stature in late eighteenth-century debates about the family. Wollstonecraft critically identified them as philosophical and political partners in the defense of the patriarchal structure of the family, yet she used Rousseau's conceptions of childhood education and maternal empowerment and Burke's understanding of the family as the affective basis for political socialization as a theoretical foundation for her own egalitarian vision of the family. It is this ideal of the egalitarian family, Botting contends, that is one of the most important yet least appreciated legacies of Enlightenment political thought.
Author : University of California, Berkeley
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : Mark Goldie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521374224
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Author : University of California (1868-1952)
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Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Universities and colleges
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Author : Susan Dwyer Amussen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780231099790
Amussen's vivid account of family and village life in England from the reign of Elizabeth I to the accession of the Hanoverian monarchies describes the domestic economy of the rich and the poor; the processes of courtship, marriage, and marital breakdown; and the structure of power within the family and in rural communities.
Author : Yechiel J. M. Leiter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108682723
John Locke's treatises on government make frequent reference to the Hebrew Bible, while references to the New Testament are almost completely absent. To date, scholarship has not addressed this surprising characteristic of the treatises. In this book, Yechiel Leiter offers a Hebraic reading of Locke's fundamental political text. In doing so, he formulates a new school of thought in Lockean political interpretation and challenges existing ones. He shows how a grasp of the Hebraic underpinnings of Locke's political theory resolves many of the problems, as well as scholarly debates, that are inherent in reading Locke. More than a book about the political theory of John Locke, this volume is about the foundational ideas of western civilization. While focused on Locke's Hebraism, it demonstrates the persistent relevance of the biblical political narrative to modernity. It will generate interest among students of Locke and political theory; philosophy and early modern history; and within Bible study communities.
Author : Stanley Vodraska
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0761864253
In Philosophical Essays concerning Human Families, Stanley Vodraska describes a principle of moral practice that he calls “the principle of familial preference.” In ordinary circumstances, a moral agent should persistently provide preferential treatment to members of his or her family and should not pursue the good of extra-familial persons to such an extent as to disadvantage or neglect his or her family. The essays uncover this principle in human practices of love or charity, mercy, justice, and prudence, and measure its weight in religion, moral philosophy, and the political order.
Author : Lawrence C. Becker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415936750
A revised, expanded and updated edition with contributions by 325 renowned authorities in the field of ethics. All of the original articles have been newly peer-reviewed and revised, bibliographies have been updated throughout, and the overall design of the work has been enhanced for easier access to cross-references and other reference features.