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Against throne and altar : Machiavelli and political theory under the English Republic /
"Modern republicanism - distinguished from its classical counterpart by its commercial character and jealous distrust of those in power, by its use of representative institutions, and by its employment of a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances - owes an immense debt to the r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Modern republicanism - distinguished from its classical counterpart by its commercial character and jealous distrust of those in power, by its use of representative institutions, and by its employment of a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances - owes an immense debt to the republican experiment conducted in England between 1649, when Charles I was executed, and 1660, when Charles II was crowned. Though abortive, this experiment left a legacy in the political science articulated both by its champions, John Milton, Marchamont Nedham, and James Harrington, and by its sometime opponent and ultimate supporter, Thomas Hobbes. This volume examines these four thinkers, situates them with regard to the novel species of republicanism first championed in the early 1500s by Niccolo Machiavelli, and examines the debt that he and they owed the Epicurean tradition in philosophy and the political science crafted by the Arab philosophers Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 442 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511387350 9780511387357 0511384505 9780511384509 9780511388347 0511388349 9780511509650 0511509650 9780521123952 052112395X 9786611255053 6611255052 0511382685 9780511382680 0511386338 9780511386336 |