Author: LawfulnessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The lawfulness and obligation of the oaths of allegiance and abjuration, shewn in a discourse betwixt a minister and a gentleman, by a lover of truth and peace
Author: LawfulnessThe Eighteenth Century
Author: A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23
Author: Pierre BaylePublisher: Natural Law and Enlightenment
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
"The topics of church and state, religious toleration, the legal enforcement of religious practices, and religiously motivated violence on the part of individuals, have once again become burning issues. Pierre Bayle's Philosophical Commentary was a major attempt to deal with very similar problems three centuries ago. His argument is that if the orthodox have the right and duty to persecute, then every sect will persecute since every sect considers itself orthodox. The result will be mutual slaughter, something God cannot have intended." "Bayle has often been seen as a skeptic who blazed a philosophical path that Denis Diderot, David Hume, and other Enlightenment thinkers would follow. But his was a philosophical skepticism that did not exclude the possibility of religious faith, and Bayle himself was a Calvinist Christian." "Bayle's book was translated into English in 1708. The Liberty Fund edition reprints that translation, carefully checked against the French and corrected, with an introduction and annotations designed to make Bayle's arguments accessible to the twenty-first-century reader." --Book Jacket.
An Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe, by the Establishment of an European Dyet, Parliament, Or, Estates
Author: William PennColonial Origins of the American Constitution
Author: Donald S. LutzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Presents 80 documents selected to reflect Eric Voegelin's theory that in Western civilization basic political symbolizations tend to be variants of the original symbolization of Judeo-Christian religious tradition. These documents demonstrate the continuity of symbols preceding the writing of the Constitution and all contain a number of basic symbols such as: a constitution as higher law, popular sovereignty, legislative supremacy, the deliberative process, and a virtuous people. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ditié de Jehanne D'Arc
Author: Christine (de Pisan)Publisher: Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : fr
Pages : 136
Book Description
Behemoth Or The Long Parliament
Author: Thomas HobbesPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226345444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Behemoth, or The Long Parliament is essential to any reader interested in the historical context of the thought of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). In De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651), the great political philosopher had developed an analytical framework for discussing sedition, rebellion, and the breakdown of authority. Behemoth, completed around 1668 and not published until after Hobbe's death, represents the systematic application of this framework to the English Civil War. In his insightful and substantial Introduction, Stephen Holmes examines the major themes and implications of Behemoth in Hobbes's system of thought. Holmes notes that a fresh consideration of Behemoth dispels persistent misreadings of Hobbes, including the idea that man is motivated solely by a desire for self-preservation. Behemoth, which is cast as a series of dialogues between a teacher and his pupil, locates the principal cause of the Civil War less in economic interests than in the stubborn irrationality of key actors. It also shows more vividly than any of Hobbe's other works the importance of religion in his theories of human nature and behavior.
A Treatise Concerning Civil Government
Author: Josiah TuckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Covenants and the Covenanters
Author: James Kerr Et AlPublisher:
ISBN: 1406876100
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Includes an introduction to the national convenants.
A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings
Author: Noah WebsterPublisher:
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description