{"product_id":"a-history-of-political-thought-9780631186533","title":"A History of Political Thought","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume continues the story of European political theorising by focusing on medieval and Renaissance thinkers. It includes extensive discussion of the practices that underpinned medieval political theories and which continued to play crucial roles in the eventual development of early-modern political institutions and debates. The author strikes a balance between trying to understand the philosophical cogency of medieval and Renaissance arguments on the one hand, elucidating why historically-suited medieval and Renaissance thinkers thought the ways they did about politics; and why we often think otherwise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a very well-informed, thoughtful and scholarly account that is destined to be read closely (and with great profit) by specialists in the field as well as by the students for whom it is primarily intended.\" \u003ci\u003eFrancis Oakley, Edward Dorr Professor of the History of Ideas and President Emeritus of Williams College\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Professor Coleman demonstrates an admirable grasp of the detail and subtlety of the philosophical arguments, and their relation to social and historial circumstances, including trends in wider spheres of thought [...] I found the chapter on Plato particularly illuminating and students will find much of ambiguity in \u003ci\u003eThe Republic\u003c\/i\u003e clarified by Coleman's discussion.[...] Students of specialist courses in Greek, Stoic and early Christian political thought will gain much from this scholarly and erudite book by an acknowledged expert in the field\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Boucher, Cardiff University English Historical Review Vol 117, June 2002\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Medieval Political Ideas and Medieval Society 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedieval Sources 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical Context of Early Medieval Political Thought 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarolingian Christian Kingship and Feudal Society 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslatio Imperii 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheocratic Kingship 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origins of Papal Authority and the Gelasian Doctrine 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo Swords Theory 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Twelfth-century ‘Renaissance’: Canon Lawyers and their Heirs 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Twelfth-century ‘Renaissance’ and the Civil Lawyers 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCivilians and Canonists 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividual and Collective Liberties 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSovereignty and Corporations 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Law, Rights and the Lawyers’ Concern for Individual Autonomy 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrigins of Property Rights 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedieval Education: Practical Moral Philosophy of Ethics, Economics and Politics 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Contribution of Arabic and Jewish Thinking to the Twelfth-century ‘Renaissance’ 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotle in the Universities 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthics and Politics in the Liberal Arts Course 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Purpose of Aristotelian Rhetorical Persuasion 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Thirteenth ‘Aristotelian’ Century 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Later Thirteenth-century Understanding of Rhetoric’s Service to a Prince: Giles of Rome 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotelian Rhetoric 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReturning to Giles of Rome’s Rhetorical De regimine principum 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRhetoric outside the University and Aristotle within the University 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotle’s Ethics for Medieval University Students 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLawyers versus the Arts Faculty Philosophers 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Mendicant Orders: Franciscans and Dominicans and Political Theory 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 St Thomas Aquinas 81\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophy of Man 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReality and Metaphysics 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNaming, Natures and Actual Existents 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatures and Definitions 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubstantial Form and Corporeal Individuation 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeing and Essence 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCause and Effect 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrace Added to and Perfecting, Not Destroying, Nature 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSense Origin of Knowing 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReason and Will 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Will’s Relation to Justice as Universal Principle and as Historically Contingent Conclusion 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEudaimonia\/beatitudo: Immortality and the Completion of Desire 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRationality and the Freedom of the Will 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Will and the Doctrine of Original Sin 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Theology 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eState and Church: The Consequences of Natural Theology 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFree Will and Responsibility 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAquinas on Law and Politics 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Law beyond Cicero 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Human Community 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Consequences of the Fall 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividual Rights and the State’s Law 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Contrast with Augustine 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mixed Constitution 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrivate Property Rights 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 John of Paris 118\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiographical Details 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Franciscan Position 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dominican Position 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origin of Government 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Thomistic Underpinning of dominium in rebus, Lordship and Ownership of Things 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Justification of Private Ownership 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLimitations on Government 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origin of the Priesthood 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Relation of the Church to its Property 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeposition Theory 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Marsilius of Padua 134\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiographical Details 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Reading of Discourse 1 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Observations from Discourse 2 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 William of Ockham 169\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiographical Details 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOckham’s Positions on Church and State 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOckham’s Epistemology 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOckham’s Dualism Concerning Secular and Spiritual Government: Continuing the Narrative 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComparisons with Marsilius 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Exceptional Exercise of Coercive Authority 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Rights 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCorporation Theory 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOckham’s ‘Absolutism’ 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow did Ockham Come to Hold These Views? 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRight Reason 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScriptural Hermeneutics 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOckham’s Ethics 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Late Medieval Fortunes of Corporation Theories in the Church’s ‘Conciliar Theory’ 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The Italian Renaissance and Machiavelli’s Political Theory 199\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Italian City-states Compared with Other European Cities 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Unconventional Aims of this Chapter 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunal Discourses and Citizenship 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Commerce 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Venetian Way 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerceived Benefits of Citizen Status 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity, Civitas, Ranked Citizenship and Local Patriotisms 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Involvement of Citizens in Late Thirteenth-century Communal Government 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Communal Ideal and the Menace of Factions 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Evolution of the Florentine Governing Class 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho Wanted to Play an Active Role in Fifteenth-century Florentine Government? 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHumanism and Humanist Conceptions of Florentine Republicanism 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFifteenth-century Florentine Ideology 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNiccolò Machiavelli 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMachiavelli’s Political Morality 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFounding and Maintaining the ‘Stato’ 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fixity of Man’s Nature 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharacter Formation 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ‘Fit’ Between Character and the Times 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFortune 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Impetuous Prince Who Must Learn How Not to Have Fixed Dispositions 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearn to Imitate Foxes and Lions 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMachiavelli’s ‘Popular’ Government: His Views of the Popolo 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 272\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 291\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default 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