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Release : 1997
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Author : Arihiro Fukuda
Release : 1997-10-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Sovereignty and the Sword by : Arihiro Fukuda
Download or read book Sovereignty and the Sword written by Arihiro Fukuda. This book was released on 1997-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century produced two political thinkers of genius: Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington. They are known today as spokesmen of opposite positions, Hobbes of absolutism, Harrington of republicanism. Yet behind their disagreements, argues Arihiro Fukuda, there lay a common perspective. For both writers, the primary aim was the restoration of peace and order to a divided land. Both men saw the conventional thinking of the time as unequal to that task. Their greatest works — Hobbes's Leviathan of 1651, Harrington's Oceana of 1656 — proposed the reconstruction of the English polity on novel bases. It was not over the principle of sovereignty that the two men differed. Fukuda shows Harrington to have been, no less than Hobbes, a theorist of absolute sovereignty. But where Hobbes repudiated the mixed governments of classical antiquity, Harrington's study of them convinced him that mixed government, far from being the enemy of absolute sovereignty, was its essential foundation.
Author : Alan Haworth
Release : 2011-02-25
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Understanding the Political Philosophers by : Alan Haworth
Download or read book Understanding the Political Philosophers written by Alan Haworth. This book was released on 2011-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing study invites you to climb inside the heads of the major political philosophers, as it were, and to see the world through their eyes. Beginning with Socrates and concluding with post-Rawlsian theory, Alan Haworth presents the key ideas and developments with clarity and depth. Each chapter provides a concentrated study of a given thinker or group of thinkers and together they constitute a broad account of the main arguments in political philosophy. There are chapters on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, the Utilitarians, Marx, Rawls, and post-Rawlsian developments. This is a fascinating, lively and engaging look at the topic and will be appropriate for any student taking a course in political philosophy or political thought.
Author : Ralph Cudworth
Release : 1838
Genre : Atheism
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Book Synopsis The True Intellectual System of the Universe by : Ralph Cudworth
Download or read book The True Intellectual System of the Universe written by Ralph Cudworth. This book was released on 1838. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Plamenatz
Release : 2012-06-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau by : John Plamenatz
Download or read book Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau written by John Plamenatz. This book was released on 2012-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents lucid and insightful lectures on three great figures from the history of political thought. It explores a range of themes in the political thought of Machiavelli Hobbes, and Rousseau.
