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Natural Rights and the New Republicanism /

In Natural Rights and the New Republicanism, Michael Zuckert proposes a new view of the political philosophy that lay behind the founding of the United States. In a book that will interest political scientists, historians, and philosophers, Zuckert looks at the Whig or opposition tradition as it dev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zuckert, Michael P., 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Aristotelian royalism and Reformation absolutism : divine right theory
  • Aristotelian constitutionalism and Reformation contractarianism : from ancient constitution to original contract
  • Contract and Christian liberty : John Milton
  • Whig contractarianisms and rights
  • The master of Whig political philosophy
  • A neo-Harringtonian moment? Whig political science and the old republicanism
  • Locke and the reformation of natural law : questions concerning the law of nature
  • Lock and the reformation of natural law : two treatises of government
  • Locke and the reformation of natural law : of property
  • Locke and the transformation of Whig political philosophy.