TY - BOOK ID - 2909351 TI - The Greek tradition in Republican thought PY - 2004 VL - 69 SN - 0521835453 051118798X 9780511187988 9780521835459 0511185294 9780511185298 051118705X 9780511187056 0511186126 9780511186127 0521024285 1107149827 9781107149823 1280458089 9781280458088 0511327080 9780511327087 9780511490644 051149064X 9780521024280 0521024285 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Republicanism KW - Republikanisme KW - Republikeinse gezindheid KW - Républicanisme KW - Greece KW - Political science KW - Republicanism. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Republicanism - Greece UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2909351 AB - The Greek Tradition in Republic Thought completely rewrites the standard history of republican political theory. It excavates an identifiably Greek strain of republican thought which attaches little importance to freedom as non-dependence and sees no intrinsic value in political participation. This tradition's central preoccupations are not honour and glory, but happiness (eudaimonia) and justice - defined, in Plato's terms, as the rule of the best men. This set of commitments yields as startling readiness to advocate the corrective redistribution of wealth, and even the outright abolition of private property. The Greek tradition was revived in England during the early sixteenth century and was broadly influential throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its exponents included Sir Thomas More, James Harrington, Montesquieu and Thomas Jefferson, and it contributed significantly to the ideological underpinnings of the American Founding as well as the English Civil Wars. ER -