Natural Right and Political Right: Essays in Honor of Harry V. JaffaThomas B. Silver, Peter W. Schramm |
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... Christian who writes a non - Christian epic . The case of Statius , the poet par excellence of purgatory , is slightly more complex but no longer as bewildering as it once seemed to be , since on the basis of Dante's literary fiction he ...
... Christian who writes a non - Christian epic . The case of Statius , the poet par excellence of purgatory , is slightly more complex but no longer as bewildering as it once seemed to be , since on the basis of Dante's literary fiction he ...
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... Christian politics which had trans- formed political life into a seemingly endless succession of civil wars in- spired by sectarian disputes . For it was " school divinity " which had made politics subordinate to religion and ...
... Christian politics which had trans- formed political life into a seemingly endless succession of civil wars in- spired by sectarian disputes . For it was " school divinity " which had made politics subordinate to religion and ...
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... Christian authors . " Clearly what Rousseau is referring to here is Hobbes's attempt to reconcile his system with Christian politics under the aegis of the laws of nature . To be sure , Hobbes expected his secular- ized version of the ...
... Christian authors . " Clearly what Rousseau is referring to here is Hobbes's attempt to reconcile his system with Christian politics under the aegis of the laws of nature . To be sure , Hobbes expected his secular- ized version of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Dante and the Rediscovery of Political Philosophy | 9 |
Jefferson and the Practice of Empire | 27 |
Copyright | |
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