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Defensor Pacis
Marsilius Of Marsilius Of Padua
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Description for Defensor Pacis
paperback. Addresses the role of citizenship as a buffer between individual and community. This book explicates the foundations of religious toleration. It affords a distinctive theoretical perspective that rivals that of various thinkers of the Western political tradition. Translator(s): Gewirth, Alan. Series: Records of Western Civilization Series. Num Pages: 550 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; DNF; HBJD; HBLC; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 143 x 33. Weight in Grams: 650.
Marsilius of Padua is one of the few truly revolutionary figures in the history of political philosophy. The first to propound the separation of Church and State, he is considered the precursor to subsequent political thinkers, from Machiavelli to Marx. The Marsilian revolution consisted not only in a radical change in the theory of the relations between religion and politics that culminated in the Protestant Reformation and other central developments of the modern era, but, even more importantly, it had an effect on the whole conception of human beings - their nature, acts, values, and sociopolitical relations. As Cary J. ... Read more
Marsilius of Padua is one of the few truly revolutionary figures in the history of political philosophy. The first to propound the separation of Church and State, he is considered the precursor to subsequent political thinkers, from Machiavelli to Marx. The Marsilian revolution consisted not only in a radical change in the theory of the relations between religion and politics that culminated in the Protestant Reformation and other central developments of the modern era, but, even more importantly, it had an effect on the whole conception of human beings - their nature, acts, values, and sociopolitical relations. As Cary J. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
550
Condition
New
Series
Records of Western Civilization Series
Number of Pages
550
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231123556
SKU
V9780231123556
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About Marsilius Of Marsilius Of Padua
Alan Gewirth is Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Cary J. Nederman is professor of political science at Texas A & M University.
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