The Circle of Rights Expands: Modern Political Thought After the Reformation, 1521 (Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau)
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.
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The Circle of Rights Expands: Modern Political Thought After the Reformation, 1521 (Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau)
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.
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The Circle of Rights Expands: Modern Political Thought After the Reformation, 1521 (Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau)

The Circle of Rights Expands: Modern Political Thought After the Reformation, 1521 (Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau)

by Arthur Monahan
The Circle of Rights Expands: Modern Political Thought After the Reformation, 1521 (Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau)

The Circle of Rights Expands: Modern Political Thought After the Reformation, 1521 (Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau)

by Arthur Monahan

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780773560284
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date: 03/29/2007
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Arthur P. Monahan (1930-2006) was professor emeritus, philosophy, Saint Mary's University, and the author of From Personal Duties Towards Personal Rights: Late Medieval and Early Modern Political Thought, 1300-1600 and Consent, Coercion, and Limit: The Me

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     3
Continental Europe in the Reformation Era     13
Seventeenth-Century England's Response to the Reformation and Its Aftermath     109
Back to the Continent: Spinoza and Rousseau     191
Conclusion     220
Index     223
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