Inventing the Individual : The Origins of Western Liberalism /

Here, in a grand narrative spanning 1,800 years of European history, a distinguished political philosopher firmly rejects Western liberalism's usual account of itself: its emergence in opposition to religion in the early modern era. Larry Siedentop argues instead that liberal thought is, in its...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siedentop, Larry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Edición:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Temas:
Ideals (Philosophy).
Individualism.
Liberalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue: What is the West About?
  • The World of Antiquity
  • 1. The Ancient Family
  • 2. The Ancient City
  • 3. The Ancient Cosmos
  • A Moral Revolution
  • 4. The World Turned Upside Down: Paul
  • 5. The Truth Within: Moral Equality
  • 6. Heroism Redefined
  • 7. A New Form of Association: Monasticism
  • 8. The Weakness of the Will: Augustine
  • Towards the Idea of Fundamental Law
  • 9. Shaping New Attitudes and Habits
  • 10. Distinguishing Spiritual from Temporal Power
  • 11. Barbarian Codes, Roman Law and Christian Intuitions
  • 12. The Carolingian Compromise
  • Europe Acquires its Identity
  • 13. Why Feudalism did not Recreate Ancient Slavery
  • 14. Fostering the 'Peace of God'
  • 15. The Papal Revolution: A Constitution for Europe?
  • 16. Natural Law and Natural Rights
  • A New Model of Government
  • 17. Centralization and the New Sense of Justice
  • 18. The Democratizing of Reason
  • 19. Steps towards the Creation of Nation-States
  • 20. Urban Insurrections
  • The Birth Pangs of Modern Liberty
  • 21. Popular Aspirations and the Friars
  • 22. The Defence of Egalitarian Moral Intuitions
  • 23. God's Freedom and Human Freedom Joined: Ockham
  • 24. Struggling for Representative Government in the Church
  • 25. Dispensing with the Renaissance
  • Epilogue: Christianity and Secularism
  • Select Bibliography and Endnotes
  • Index

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