Readings in Political PhilosophySelections from Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Marsiglio, Machiavelli, Calvin, the Vindiciae contra tyrannos, Bodin, Hooker, Grotius, Milton, Hobbes, Harrington, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Paine, and Bentham. |
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... King 3. The Contractual Basis of Royal Authority 4. The Right of Resistance to Tyrants X. BODIN Readings from De ... Kings and Magistrates , Areo- pagitica , and Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth I. The Origin of ...
... King 3. The Contractual Basis of Royal Authority 4. The Right of Resistance to Tyrants X. BODIN Readings from De ... Kings and Magistrates , Areo- pagitica , and Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth I. The Origin of ...
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... king of Macedonia . While a youth Aristotle came to Athens and was one of Plato's pupils for about twenty years . He next spent a few years at the court of Hermias , prince of Atarneas , in Asia Minor ; he fled from that country when ...
... king of Macedonia . While a youth Aristotle came to Athens and was one of Plato's pupils for about twenty years . He next spent a few years at the court of Hermias , prince of Atarneas , in Asia Minor ; he fled from that country when ...
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... king , as if there were no difference between a great household and a small state . The distinction which is made between the king and the statesman is as follows : When the government is personal , the ruler is a king ; when ...
... king , as if there were no difference between a great household and a small state . The distinction which is made between the king and the statesman is as follows : When the government is personal , the ruler is a king ; when ...
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... kings ; because the Hellenes were under royal rule before they came together , as the barbarians still are . Every family ... king . For they imagine , not only the forms of the gods , but their ways of life to be like their own . When ...
... kings ; because the Hellenes were under royal rule before they came together , as the barbarians still are . Every family ... king . For they imagine , not only the forms of the gods , but their ways of life to be like their own . When ...
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... king or under some other form of government ; and whether monarchy , although good for some , may not be bad for others . But first we must determine whether there is one species of royalty or many . It is easy to see that there are ...
... king or under some other form of government ; and whether monarchy , although good for some , may not be bad for others . But first we must determine whether there is one species of royalty or many . It is easy to see that there are ...
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Page 192 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Page 288 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 195 - And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great : ye shall not be afraid of the face of man ; for the judgment is God's : and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Page 290 - Methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Page 195 - Thus saith the LORD ; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor : and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Page 522 - Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one...
Page 176 - Talibus Ilioneus : cuncti simul ore fremebant Dardanidae. 560 Tum breviter Dido, vultum demissa, profatur : Solvite corde metum, Teucri ; secludite curas. Res dura et regni novitas me talia cogunt Moliri, et late fines custode tueri.
Page 280 - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Page 289 - For now the time seems come wherein Moses, the great prophet, may sit in heaven rejoicing to see that memorable and glorious wish of his fulfilled, when not only our seventy Elders, but all the Lord's people, are become prophets.
Page 288 - Why should we then affect a rigor contrary to the manner of God and of nature, by abridging or scanting those means which books freely permitted are, both to the trial of virtue and the exercise of truth? It would be better done to learn that the law must needs be frivolous which goes to restrain things uncertainly and yet equally working to good and to evil. And were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evildoing. For God sure...