Defining the Common Good - Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Klappentext This book focuses on the political thought of late eighteenth-century Britain, discussing the crisis of the early modern state provoked by the American revolution and setting it in its European context. Zusammenfassung This book discusses the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain sparked off by the American revolution. It sets the crisis in its European context and traces the evolution of influential political ideas which continue to resonate today in the principles of 'one man! one vote' and 'freedom of thought'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The figure of Cicero; 2. A classical landscape; 3. State and empire; 4. The limits of sovereignty and obligation; 5. The common good, toleration and freedom of thought; 6. 'Alternatives' to the common good 1774-1776; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Peter N. Miller, Peter N. (University of Chicago) Miller
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.1994
• EAN: 9780521442596
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44259-6
• No. of pages: 488
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History