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polychrome |
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"This is the first detailed study in any language of the single most influential theory of the modern state: Samuel von Pufendorf's account of the state as a 'moral person'. Ben Holland reconstructs the theological and political contexts in and for which Pufendorf conceived of the state as being a person. Pufendorf took up an early Christian conception of personality and a medieval conception of freedom in order to fashion a theory of the state appropriate to continental Europe, and which could head off some of the absolutist implications of a rival theory of state personality, that of Hobbes. The book traces the fate of the concept in the hands of others - international lawyers, moral philosophers and revolutionaries - until the early twentieth century. It will be essential reading for historians of political thought and for those interested in the development of key ideas in theology, international law and international relations"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Bodies, Souls, Persons, States ; Part I ; 1 The Constitution of the Free Person ; I. Molina and Suárez on Free Will. |
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II. The Immediate Context: The Controversy de auxiliis III. The Broader Context: The Society of Jesus and the Sacrament of Penance ; (i) The Mission of Confession ; (ii) Renaissance Humanism and Probability ; (iii) Rule Sixty-Five in Canon Law ; (iv) The Language of dominium. |
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2 The Constitution of the Person of the State I. Molinist Liberty and Lutheranism ; II. Pufendorf's Theology ; III. Pufendorf and Molinist Freedom ; IV. Pufendorf's Theory of Sovereignty ; V. Pufendorf on the Holy Roman Empire ; Part II. |
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3 Continental Appropriations: The Moral Person of the State and the Law of Nations I. Wolff ; II. Vattel ; III. Kant ; 4 Atlantic Appropriations: Breaking and Making Composite Polities ; I. The Epoch of Two Pufendorfian Constitutions ; II. A Pufendorfian Revolution. |
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III. The Moral Person of the State and Facultative Sovereignty in the American Republic 5 Anglo-German Interpretations: The Moral Person of the State and the Legal Person of the State ; I. Gierke and Germanism ; II. Gierke and Romanism. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Philosophy. |
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State, The -- Philosophy.
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State, The -- Philosophy. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Holland, Ben, 1982- Moral person of the state. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781108416887 (DLC) 2017007529 (OCoLC)981115702 |
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9781108277099 (electronic book) |
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1108277098 (electronic book) |
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9781108242127 (ebook) |
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110824212X |
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9781108403405 (paperback) |
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1108403409 |
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9781108416887 |
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1108416888 |
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