Titlebook: Interpreting Modern Political Philosophy; From Machiavelli to Alistair Edwards (Lecturer),Jules Townshend (Reade Textbook 2002Latest editi

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,Hobbes (1588–1679),m one born an Elizabethan in the year of the Armada and growing up during the fear and religious persecution of the Tudor period, followed by the uncertain transition from Tudor to Stuart rule. Most immediately, he was provoked by the sharpening political and religious sectarianism in his adult year

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,Rousseau (1712–1778), Rousseau as a . political theorist requires immediate qualification, for although Rousseau — in common with many other Enlightenment thinkers — rejected traditional forms of authority in favour of the individual capacity for self-determination and self-government, he nevertheless remained critical

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,Burke (1729–1797),tive statement in defence of the traditions and institutional framework of a hierarchical society. In his . Burke argued that customary constitutional practices, inherited liberties, an established monarchy, an established church, and a privileged aristocracy were all integral to a society’s prosper

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,Kant (1724–1804),st part of his ., as well as shorter political essays such as . were seriously studied by only a handful of Kant scholars. Most political theorists did not think Kant’s political writings sufficiently distinctive to warrant their inclusion on courses in the history of modern political thought. This

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,Mill (1806–1873),uman nature to expand itself in innumerable and conflicting directions’ (Mill, 1969, p. 150). It remains the most eloquent and passionate defence of individual liberty in all political thought. Though he is sometimes criticised for vagueness and lack of acuity, no one who reads . can miss this centr

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