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The Circle of Rights Expands: Modern Political Thought after the Reformation, 1521 (Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau)

By Arthur P. Monahan

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780773560284
DOI
10.1515/9780773560284
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1446151 bytes)
Series
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas; 43
Pages
245\236
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 22:09:02

Description

The Circle of Rights Expands explores ideas of limit on political authority through a fresh reading of the political philosophy of the fifteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, including the work of representative thinkers such as Locke, Rousseau, Athusius, Grotius, Hobbes, and Hume. Arthur Monahan examines problems of sovereignty, religious toleration, and individual rights, emphasizing the relationship between such individual rights and economic change.

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