Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the..

Paul A. Rahe9780521883900, 0521883903

Книга Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the… Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic Книги Исторические Автор: Paul A. Rahe Год издания: 2008 Формат: pdf Издат.:Cambridge University Press Страниц: 432 Размер: 2,2 Mb ISBN: 0521883903 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:Modern republicanism – distinguished from its classical counterpart by its commercial character and jealous distrust of those in power, by its use of representative institutions, and by its employment of a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances – owes an immense debt to the republican experiment conducted in England between 1649, when Charles I was executed, and 1660, when Charles II was crowned. Though abortive, this experiment left a legacy in the political science articulated both by its champions, John Milton, Marchamont Nehdham, and James Harrington, and by its sometime opponent and ultimate supporter Thomas Hobbes. This volume examines these four thinkers, situates them with regard to the novel species of republicanism first championed more than a century before by Niccolo Machiavelli, and examines the debt that he and they owed the Epicurean tradition in philosophy and the political science crafted by the Arab philosophers Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Dedication……Page 7
Contents……Page 9
Acknowledgments……Page 11
Abbreviations and Brief Titles……Page 13
Introduction……Page 15
Prologue: Machiavelli in the English Revolution……Page 18
Preface……Page 33
1
Machiavelli’s Populist Turn……Page 36
Differential Moral and Political Rationality……Page 38
Res Publica……Page 41
Machiavellian Republicanism……Page 44
In the Shadow of Lucretius……Page 46
The Paradox of a Political Epicureanism……Page 53
Virtue, Corruption, and Fear……Page 59
A Question of Appetite……Page 63
Machiavelli’s Modern Populism……Page 67
2 The Ravages of an Ambitious Idleness……Page 70
The Theologico-Political Doctrine of Averroës……Page 73
The Influence of Averroës……Page 89
The Ecclesiastical Principality……Page 97
Satisfied and Stupefied……Page 100
The Subtle Art of Suggestion……Page 103
Sinister Opinions, Sinister Decision……Page 105
The Honor of the World……Page 109
Preface……Page 115
3 The Classical Republicanism of John Milton……Page 118
Rule by the Sanior, Valentior Pars……Page 124
A Republic of Moral Virtue……Page 132
Politics and Morality……Page 133
Milton’s Misgivings……Page 137
After the Fall……Page 140
Pietas in Patriam……Page 146
Tyranny……Page 147
Providence and Prudence……Page 149
4 The Liberation of Captive Minds……Page 153
A Corporation of Impostors……Page 154
The Fescu of an Imprimatur……Page 157
Philosophic Freedom……Page 159
The Theologico-Political Dilemma……Page 162
The Tyranny of Custom……Page 169
The Logic of Popular Enlightenment……Page 182
Old Priest Writ Large……Page 185
The Practice of Kalam……Page 186
Preface……Page 189
5 Marchamont Nedham and the Regicide Republic……Page 193
The Middle Ground……Page 194
The Very Model of a Modern Sophist……Page 197
Turncoat……Page 200
Engagement……Page 201
The Conscientious Pretender……Page 203
Opinionated Humors Dispelled……Page 206
6 Servant of the Rump……Page 211
A Libertine Alliance……Page 219
Mercurius Politicus……Page 226
The Impasse……Page 229
7 The Good Old Cause……Page 233
The Republican Revival……Page 236
Servant of the Protectorate……Page 242
The Excellencie of a Free State……Page 246
Nedham’s Modern Populism……Page 247
The Spirit of Distrust……Page 251
The End of Government……Page 256
Preface……Page 259
8
Thomas Hobbes’s Republican Youth……Page 263
Bacon’s Project……Page 266
Bacon and Machiavelli……Page 269
The Sources of Civil Knowledge……Page 275
The New Prince……Page 277
Rome Ancient……Page 280
Rome Modern……Page 282
The Fairy Kingdom……Page 284
9 The Making of a Modern Monarchist……Page 287
Hobbes’s Kehre……Page 288
Thucydidean Ruminations……Page 292
Dissolution of Government……Page 297
10 The Very Model of a Modern Moralist……Page 305
The Epicurean Persuasion……Page 307
Erudite Libertines……Page 311
Political Epicureanism……Page 322
Hobbes’s Critique of Machiavelli……Page 326
11 The Hobbesian Republicanism of James Harrington……Page 335
The Archives of Ancient Prudence……Page 337
Regime Typology……Page 340
A Republic Tongue-Ty’d……Page 345
A Common-wealth for Encrease……Page 350
An Immortal Commonwealth……Page 353
The Empire of the World……Page 357
Epilogue: After the Fall……Page 361
Index……Page 371