Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (2)

UCLouvain (2)

UGent (2)

KBR (1)

LUCA School of Arts (1)

Odisee (1)

Thomas More Kempen (1)

Thomas More Mechelen (1)

UCLL (1)

ULB (1)

More...

Resource type

book (2)


Language

English (2)


Year
From To Submit

2004 (1)

2001 (1)

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by
The Greek tradition in republican thought
Author:
ISBN: 0521835453 051118798X 9780511187988 9780521835459 0511185294 9780511185298 051118705X 9780511187056 0511186126 9780511186127 0521024285 1107149827 9781107149823 1280458089 9781280458088 0511327080 9780511327087 9780511490644 051149064X 9780521024280 0521024285 Year: 2004 Volume: 69 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

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.

Xenophon's prince : republic and empire in the Cyropaedia
Author:
ISBN: 0520224043 9780520224049 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Political fiction, Greek --- Kings and rulers in literature --- Politique-fiction grecque --- Rois et souverains dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Xenophon. --- Cyrus, --- In literature --- Politics and literature --- Republicanism --- Republicanism in literature --- Imperialism --- Imperialism in literature --- History --- History and criticism --- Cyrus --- Xenophon --- Iran --- -Imperialism in literature --- -Politics and literature --- -Republicanism --- -Republicanism in literature --- Political science --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Greek political fiction --- Greek fiction --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- -History and criticism --- Political aspects --- Cyrus King of Persia --- -Xenophon --- In literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Republicanism in literature. --- Xenofon --- Xenofoon --- Xenophoon --- Senofonte --- Rois et souverains dans la littérature --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran --- Politics and literature - Greece --- Republicanism - Greece --- Imperialism - History - To 1500 --- Political fiction, Greek - History and criticism --- Cyrus - In literature --- Iran - In literature

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by