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Author: David P. Henreckson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-07-04
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1108470211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reveals how early modern religious conceptions of covenant and community were deployed for surprisingly radical political ends.
Author: Mark Stephen Jendrysik
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-04-09
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1509534946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Human beings universally dream of a better world. For centuries they have expressed their yearning for ways of life that are free from oppression, want and fear, through philosophy, art, film and literature. In this concise and engaging book, Mark Jendrysik examines the multifarious ways utopians have posed the question of how human beings might establish justice and realize truly human values. Drawing upon a range of sources, from Plato’s Republic and Thomas More’s Utopia to Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, he argues that, though for many utopia means ‘demanding the impossible’, the goals that seemed out of reach for one generation are often realized in the next. Nonetheless, he shows that, while utopian thought points toward our most noble aspirations, it also illustrates the dangers of totalitarianism, of the surveillance state and of global climate change. This engaging book will be an invaluable guide for anyone seeking to understand how, for good or ill, utopian aspirations shape our lives, even in times that seem designed to close off dreams of a better world.
Author: James Harrington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-08-20
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521423298
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →James Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660. This volume comprises the first and last of Harrington's writings. Harrington was the first theorist to interpret the English Civil Wars as a revolution, the result of a long-term process of social change which led to the decay of the old political order. The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) is a fictionalised presentation of English history up to the victory of the New Model Army, explaining the fall of the monarchy and proposing a republic to replace it. A System of Politics, written after the Restoration, is a scheme of history and political philosophy erected on the foundations of his previous works. Professor Pocock's introduction emphasises Harrington's place as a pivotal figure in the history of English political thought. This edition also contains a chronology of events in Harrington's life and a guide to further reading.
Author: Edward Craig
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 896
ISBN-13: 9780415187091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume four of a ten volume set which provides full and detailed coverage of all aspects of philosophy, including information on how philosophy is practiced in different countries, who the most influential philosophers were, and what the basic concepts are.
Author: David A. J. Richards
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0195059395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In writing the constitution, the Founders combined a Lockean theory of politically legitimate power with the political science they had learned from Machiavelli, Harrington, Hume, and Montesquieu to articulate a new conception of constitutional argument. Examining the Founders' humanist analytical methods and working assumptions, this book combines history, political philosophy, and interpretive practice as it demonstrates an alternative exegesis of the Constitution. It clarifies a wide range of interpretive issues of federalism, enumerated rights (religious liberty and free speech), unenumerated rights (the constitutional right to privacy), and equal protection.
