Format:
Online-Ressource (418 p.)
ISBN:
9780691059709
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
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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
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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;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400821525
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
Language:
English
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