The circle of rights expands : modern political thought after the Reformation, 1521 (Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau) / Arthur P. Monahan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monahan, Arthur P., 1928-2006.

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 43.

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Europe--History--17th century.

Political science.

Political science--Europe--History--18th century.

Reformation.

Political science--Philosophy.

Human rights--Europe--History--17th century.

Human rights.

Human rights--Europe--History--18th century.

Human rights--Economic aspects--Europe--History--17th century.

Human rights--Economic aspects--Europe--History--18th century.

Human rights--Economic aspects.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 225 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007]

Summary:

The Circle of Rights Expands explores ideas of limit on political authority through a fresh reading of the political philosophy of the fifteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, including the work of representative thinkers such as Locke, Rousseau, Athusius, Grotius, Hobbes, and Hume. Arthur Monahan examines problems of sovereignty, religious toleration, and individual rights, emphasizing the relationship between such individual rights and economic change. Monahan's reading of individual philosophers, including the work of Spinoza, sixteenth-century advocates of religious toleration, and the radical Diggers and Levellers of England in the mid- seventeenth century, constitutes a convincing overview of the political theory of the period. This is the last volume in Monahan's trilogy on the effect of medieval thinking and practice on modern ideas about democracy.

Contents:

I Continental Europe in the Reformation Era 13

II Seventeenth-Century England's Response to the Reformation and Its Aftermath 109

III Back to the Continent: Spinoza and Rousseau 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780773532083

0773532080

OCLC:

71812340