Natural Rights and the New Republicanism

Michael P. Zuckert

Veröffentlicht von Princeton University Press 1994

Natural Rights and the New Republicanism

Michael P. Zuckert

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821525

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In Natural Rights and the New Republicanism, Michael Zuckert proposes a new view of the political philosophy that lay behind the founding of the United States. In a book that will interest political scientists, historians, and philosophers, Zuckert looks at the Whig or opposition tradition as it developed in England. He argues that there were, in fact, three opposition traditions: Protestant, Grotian, and Lockean. Before the English Civil War the opposition was inspired by the effort to find the "one true Protestant politics--an effort that was seen to be a failure by the end of the Interregnum period. The Restoration saw the emergence of the Whigs, who sought a way to ground politics free from the sectarian theological-scriptural conflicts of the previous period.

The Whigs were particularly influenced by the Dutch natural law philosopher Hugo Grotius. However, as Zuckert shows, by the mid-eighteenth century John Locke had replaced Grotius as the philosopher of the Whigs. Zuckert's analysis concludes with a penetrating examination of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the English "Cato," who, he argues, brought together Lockean political philosophy and pre-existing Whig political science into a new and powerful synthesis. Although it has been misleadingly presented as a separate "classical republican" tradition in recent scholarly discussions, it is this "new republicanism" that served as the philosophical point of departure for the founders of the American republic.

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Michael P. Zuckert is Congdon Professor of Political Science at Carleton College. He is the author of The National Rights Republic: Studies on the Foundations of the American Political Tradition.

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"Zuckert has written a very fine book. It makes sense—and good sense—out of the political thought of Locke's predecessors and establishes both the distinctiveness of Whig thought and the radicalism of Locke's departure from it."—Wilson Carey McWilliams, Rutgers University

This is a work of careful scholarship and vast erudition.... By illustrating how Lockean and republican ideas came to be blended, Zuckert forcefully recounts the origins of the American republic.---Richard Vernier, The Journal of American History

This exemplary work of historical reconstruction dramatically transforms our understanding of the genealogy of early American political thought. No one who deals with the eighteenth-century Anglo-American political tradition will be able to avoid the unsettling challenge of Zuckert's original and painstakingly documented reinterpretation, for this is one of those rare scholarly achievements, at once capacious and meticulous, that forces all of us back to the drawing boards.---Thomas L. Pangle, William and Mary Quarterly

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Frontmatter Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	i
Contents Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	vii
Preface Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	xi
Acknowledgments Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	xiii
Introduction Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	xv
Prologue Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	1
Part I: Protestants
Chapter 1. Aristotelian Royalism and Reformation Absolutism: Divine Right Theory Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	27
Chapter 2. Aristotelian Constitutionalism and Reformation Contractarianism: From Ancient Constitution to Original Contract Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	49
Chapter 3. Contract and Christian Liberty: John Milton Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	77
Part II: Whigs
Chapter 4. Whig Contractarianisms and Rights Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	95
Chapter 5. The Master of Whig Political Philosophy Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	119
Chapter 6. A Neo-Harringtonian Moment? Whig Political Science and the Old Republicanism Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	150
Part III: Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
Chapter 7. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Questions Concerning the Law of Nature Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	185
Chapter 8. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Two Treatises of Government Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	216
Chapter 9. Locke and the Reformation of Natural Law: Of Property Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	247
Chapter 10. Locke and the Transformation of Whig Political Philosophy Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	289
Notes Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	321
Bibliography Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	377
Index Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert PDF downloaden	391

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