The Structure Of Political Thought

Author : Charles N. R. McCoy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351473077
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Political Thought written by Charles N. R. McCoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1963, this classic book is a rethinking of the history of Western political philosophy. Charles N. R. McCoy contrasts classical-medieval principles against the "hypotheses" at the root of modern liberalism and modern conservativism.In Part I, "The Classical Christian Tradition from Plato to Aquinas," the author lays the foundation for a philosophical "structure" capable of producing "constitutional liberty." Part II, "The Modern Theory of Politics from Machiavelli to Marx," attempts to show, beginning with Machiavelli, the reversal and destruction of the pre-modern "structure" postulated in Part I.McCoy stresses the great contributions of Aristotle to political thought found in his more familiar Ethics and Politics, but also includes key insights drawn from Metaphysics and Physics. These contributions are developed and perfected, McCoy argues, by Augustine and Aquinas. Two other important features include McCoy's epistemological insights into Plato's work that will be new to many readers and the author's juxtaposition of traditional natural law with "the modernized theory of natural law." The modern account of autonomous natural law, in McCoy's view, helps explain the totalitarian direction of key aspects of modern political thought. This classic volume on the origins of modern philosophical thought remains a standard in the field.

Author : Charles Nicholas Reiten McCoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Author : Charles N. R. Maccoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 323 pages
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Download or read book The Structure of Political Thought written by Charles N. R. Maccoy and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Nicholas Reiten McCoy
Publisher : Catholic University of Amer Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813206790
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Intelligibility of Political Philosophy written by Charles Nicholas Reiten McCoy and published by Catholic University of Amer Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Fideler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134919212
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Thought and the Tudor Commonwealth written by Paul Fideler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shining new light onto an historically pivotal time, this book re-examines the Tudor commonwealth from a socio-political perspective and looks at its links to its own past. Each essay in this collection addresses a different aspect of the intellectual and cultural climate of the time, going beyond the politics of state into the underlying thought and tradition that shaped Tudor policy. Placing security and economics at the centre of debate, the key issues are considered in the context of medieval precedence and the wider European picture.

Author : Jeremy Waldron
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970365
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Political Theory written by Jeremy Waldron and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political theorists focus on the nature of justice, liberty, and equality while ignoring the institutions through which these ideals are achieved. Political scientists keep institutions in view but deploy a meager set of value-conceptions in analyzing them. A more political political theory is needed to address this gap, Jeremy Waldron argues.

Author : Alan Ryan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871404656
Total Pages : 1147 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Politics written by Alan Ryan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of politics from Hobbes to the twenty-first century.

Author : William McCormick
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813234476
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christian Structure of Politics written by William McCormick and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian Structure of Politics, the first full-length monograph on Thomas Aquinas's De Regno in decades, offers an authoritative interpretation of De Regno as a contribution to our understanding of Aquinas's politics, particularly on the relationship between Church and State. William McCormick argues that Aquinas takes up a via media between Augustine and Aristotle in De Regno, invoking human nature to ground politics as rational, but also Christian principles to limit politics because of both sin and the supernatural end of man beyond politics. Where others have seen disjoined sections on the best regime, tyranny, and the reward of the king, McCormick identifies a dialogical structure to the text - one not unlike the disputed question format - whereby Aquinas both tempers expectations for the best government and offers a spiritual diagnosis of tyranny, culminating in a sharp critique of civil religion and political theology. McCormick draws upon historical research on Aquinas' context, especially that of Anthony Black, Cary Nederman and Francis Oakley, from which he develops three themes: the medieval preponderance of kingship and royal ideology; the relationship between Church and State; and the intersection of Latin Christianity and Greco-Roman antiquity. While age-old concerns, recent research in these areas has allowed us to move beyond simplistic platitudes. For scholars of political theory and the history of political thought, De Regno will prove fascinating for the interplay of Aristotelian and Augustinian elements, undercutting the conventional wisdom that Aquinas was simply an Aristotelian. De Regno also includes an extended treatment of civil religion, one of Aquinas’ most historically-oriented discussions of politics.

Author : John S. Dryzek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199548439
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory written by John S. Dryzek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political theory and beyond.

Author : Hans Saner
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226734750
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Political Thought written by Hans Saner and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: