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Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic

By Paul A. Rahe

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0521883903, 9780521883900, 9780511388347
LCC
JC143.M4 R35 2008
Open Library ID
OL16867466M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2132653 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
436\436
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 Nehdham, 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 more than a century before 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.

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