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Content: 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 developed in England. He argues that there were, in fact, three opposition traditions: Protestant, Grotian, and Lockean. Before the English Civil War the opposition was inspired by the effort to find the "one true Protestant politics--an effort that was seen to be a failure by the end of the Interregn

Note: Description based upon print version of record , COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PROLOGUE; TWO REVOLUTIONS, TWO DECLARATIONS; CONTRACT AND THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS; LOCKE AND THE TWO REVOLUTIONS; LOCKE AND THE AMERICANS; PART ONE: PROTESTANTS; CHAPTER ONE: ARISTOTELIAN ROYALISM AND REFORMATION ABSOLUTISM: DIVINE RIGHT THEORY; CHAPTER TWO: ARISTOTELIAN CONSTITUTIONALISM AND REFORMATION CONTRACTARIANISM: FROM ANCIENT CONSTITUTION TO ORIGINAL CONTRACT; CHAPTER THREE: CONTRACT AND CHRISTIAN LIBERTY: JOHN MILTON; PART TWO: WHIGS; CHAPTER FOUR: WHIG CONTRACTARIANISMS AND RIGHTS , CHAPTER FIVE: THE MASTER OF WHIG POLITICAL PHILOSOPHYCHAPTER SIX: A NEO-HARRINGTONIAN MOMENT? WHIG POLITICAL SCIENCE AND THE OLD REPUBLICANISM; PART THREE: NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE NEW REPUBLICANISM; CHAPTER SEVEN: LOCKE AND THE REFORMATION OF NATURAL LAW: QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE LAW OF NATURE; CHAPTER EIGHT: LOCKE AND THE REFORMATION OF NATURAL LAW: TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT; CHAPTER NINE: LOCKE AND THE REFORMATION OF NATURAL LAW: OF PROPERTY; CHAPTER TEN: LOCKE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF WHIG POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Natural Rights and the New Republicanism

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Format: 1 online resource (410 p.)

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ISBN: 9781400821525

Content: 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 developed in England. He argues that there were, in fact, three opposition traditions: Protestant, Grotian, and Lockean. Before the English Civil War the opposition was inspired by the effort to find the "one true Protestant politics--an effort that was seen to be a failure by the end of the Interregnum period. The Restoration saw the emergence of the Whigs, who sought a way to ground politics free from the sectarian theological-scriptural conflicts of the previous period. The Whigs were particularly influenced by the Dutch natural law philosopher Hugo Grotius. However, as Zuckert shows, by the mid-eighteenth century John Locke had replaced Grotius as the philosopher of the Whigs. Zuckert's analysis concludes with a penetrating examination of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the English "Cato," who, he argues, brought together Lockean political philosophy and pre-existing Whig political science into a new and powerful synthesis. Although it has been misleadingly presented as a separate "classical republican" tradition in recent scholarly discussions, it is this "new republicanism" that served as the philosophical point of departure for the founders of the American republic.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Prologue -- , Part I: Protestants -- , Chapter 1. Aristotelian Royalism and Reformation Absolutism: Divine Right Theory -- , Chapter 2. Aristotelian Constitutionalism and Reformation Contractarianism: From Ancient Constitution to Original Contract -- , Chapter 3. Contract and Christian Liberty: John Milton -- , Part II: Whigs -- , Chapter 4. Whig Contractarianisms and Rights -- , Chapter 5. The Master of Whig Political Philosophy -- , Chapter 6. A Neo-Harringtonian Moment? Whig Political Science and the Old Republicanism -- , Part III: Natural Rights and the New Republicanism -- , Chapter 7. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Questions Concerning the Law of Nature -- , Chapter 8. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Two Treatises of Government -- , Chapter 9. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Of Property -- , Chapter 10. Locke and the Transformation of Whig Political Philosophy -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400821525

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Format: 1 online resource (418 pages)

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ISBN: 1-4008-0899-5 , 1-4008-0901-0 , 1-4008-1399-9 , 1-283-13327-X , 9786613133274 , 1-4008-2152-5

Content: 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 developed in England. He argues that there were, in fact, three opposition traditions: Protestant, Grotian, and Lockean. Before the English Civil War the opposition was inspired by the effort to find the "one true Protestant politics--an effort that was seen to be a failure by the end of the Interregnum period. The Restoration saw the emergence of the Whigs, who sought a way to ground politics free from the sectarian theological-scriptural conflicts of the previous period. The Whigs were particularly influenced by the Dutch natural law philosopher Hugo Grotius. However, as Zuckert shows, by the mid-eighteenth century John Locke had replaced Grotius as the philosopher of the Whigs. Zuckert's analysis concludes with a penetrating examination of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the English "Cato," who, he argues, brought together Lockean political philosophy and pre-existing Whig political science into a new and powerful synthesis. Although it has been misleadingly presented as a separate "classical republican" tradition in recent scholarly discussions, it is this "new republicanism" that served as the philosophical point of departure for the founders of the American republic.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Prologue -- , Part I: Protestants -- , Chapter 1. Aristotelian Royalism and Reformation Absolutism: Divine Right Theory -- , Chapter 2. Aristotelian Constitutionalism and Reformation Contractarianism: From Ancient Constitution to Original Contract -- , Chapter 3. Contract and Christian Liberty: John Milton -- , Part II: Whigs -- , Chapter 4. Whig Contractarianisms and Rights -- , Chapter 5. The Master of Whig Political Philosophy -- , Chapter 6. A Neo-Harringtonian Moment? Whig Political Science and the Old Republicanism -- , Part III: Natural Rights and the New Republicanism -- , Chapter 7. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Questions Concerning the Law of Nature -- , Chapter 8. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Two Treatises of Government -- , Chapter 9. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Of Property -- , Chapter 10. Locke and the Transformation of Whig Political Philosophy -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-03463-X

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-05970-5

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400821525