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The Greek tradition in Republican thought /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Greek tradition in Republican thought // Eric Nelson.
Author:	Nelson, Eric,
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 296 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Republicanism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490644
ISBN:	9780511490644 (ebook)

The Greek tradition in Republican thought /
Nelson, Eric,1977-

The Greek tradition in Republican thought /Eric Nelson. - 1 online resource (xv, 296 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Ideas in context ;69. - Ideas in context ;75..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Greek nonsense in More's Utopia --1.

The Greek Tradition in Republic Thought completely rewrites the standard history of republican political theory. It excavates an identifiably Greek strain of republican thought which attaches little importance to freedom as non-dependence and sees no intrinsic value in political participation. This tradition's central preoccupations are not honour and glory, but happiness (eudaimonia) and justice - defined, in Plato's terms, as the rule of the best men. This set of commitments yields as startling readiness to advocate the corrective redistribution of wealth, and even the outright abolition of private property. The Greek tradition was revived in England during the early sixteenth century and was broadly influential throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its exponents included Sir Thomas More, James Harrington, Montesquieu and Thomas Jefferson, and it contributed significantly to the ideological underpinnings of the American Founding as well as the English Civil Wars.

ISBN: 9780511490644 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

563115
Republicanism.

LC Class. No.: JC421 / .N44 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 321.8/6

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