1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996394571403316

Autore

Marvell Andrew <1621-1678.>

Titolo

The rehearsall transpros'd [[electronic resource] ] : the second part : occasioned by two letters, the first printed by a nameless author, intituled A reproof, &c. : the second letter left for me at a friends house, dated Nov. 3, 1673, subscribed J.G. ... / / answered by Andrew Marvel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Nathaniel Ponder ..., 1673

Descrizione fisica

[3], 414 p

Soggetti

Dissenters, Religious - England

Church and state - Great Britain - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The first letter was Samuel Parker's A reproof to The rehearsal transprosed, 1673. The rehearsal transpros'd had attacked Parker's preface to Bishop Bramhall's vindicaton of himself and the episcopal clergy. Cf. NUC pre-1956.

Pages 21-22 are tightly bound in filmed copy. Pages from beginning-31 photographed from Huntington Library copy and inserted at end.

Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.

Marginal notes.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0198



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954608203321

Titolo

Religion, secularization and political thought : Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill / / edited by James E. Crimmins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-134-04746-0

0-203-52949-9

1-134-04739-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion ; ; Volume 11

Altri autori (Persone)

CrimminsJames E. <1953->

Disciplina

201.650941

Soggetti

Religion and politics - Great Britain - History

Secularism - History

Political science - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1989"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Orginal Title Page; Orginal Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; 1. The religious and the secular in the work of Thomas Hobbes; Church and state; Revelation and Reason; Overlapping spheres; The divine law of reason; Reason and scriptural exegesis; Theology and the 'new science'; Conclusion; Notes; 2. John Locke: Socinian or natural law theorist?; The contemporary testimony; Hobbism; Socinianism; Reconstructing Locke's thought; Proofs of natural law; The argument from probability; Discovery and promulgation

Exploring alternativesPossible interpretations; Dishonest Locke; Honest Locke; Inconsistent Locke; Acknowledgement; Notes; 3. The religious, the secular and the worldly: Scotland 1680-1800; The impact of the new philosophy; Theology and the practice or religion; Empiricism in natural and moral philosophy; Religion in a rational world; Notes; 4. Science and secularization in Hume, Smith and Bentham; The genealogy or 'scientism'; Scepticism versus certainty; A thoroughly secularized social science; Bentham's constructivism; Notes; 5. Edmund Burke and John Wesley: the legacy of Locke

Lockeian epistemologyLockeian contractarianism; Wesley and Burke as



Lockeian theorists; Notes; 6. Religion, utility and politics: Bentham versus Paley; Competing exponents of utility; The religious version of the doctrine of utility; Paley's conservatism; A secular utilitarian society; A paradoxical conclusion; Acknowledgement; Notes; 7. From God to man? F. D. Maurice and changing ideas of God and man; Of God, hell and salvation; Human nature and the relation of man to God; The law or fellowship; Ideas or God and man; Notes; 8. J. S. Mill and the religion of humanity

A human truth disguised in theological formThe religious context or political thought; The character of Mill's liberalism; Re-interpreting Mill; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The increasing secularization of political thought between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries has often been noted, but rarely described in detail. The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the relationship between religious beliefs, dogma and secular ideas in British political philosophy from Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill.During this period, Britain experienced the advance of natural science, the spread of education and other social improvements, and reforms in the political realm. These changes forced religion to account for itself and to justify its e



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996637472303316

Autore

WEITZ, Eric D.

Titolo

A world divided : the global struggle for human rights in the age of Nation-States / Eric D. Weitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton ; Oxford, : Princeton University press, 2019

ISBN

978-0-691-14544-0

Descrizione fisica

XX, 550 p., [4] carte di tav. : ill. ; 24 cm

Collana

Human rights and crimes against humanity

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

Diritti umani

Collocazione

X.3.B. 8868

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia