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Common Wealth, Common Good - The Politics of Virtue in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania (Hardcover)
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Common Wealth, Common Good - The Politics of Virtue in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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Common Wealth, Common Good is a study of the political discourse of
the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania in the late seventeenth and
early eighteenth centuries. It argues that the Polish-Lithuanian
political tradition was preoccupied during this period with moral
concepts, in particular that of public virtue, understood as the
subordination of private interests to the common good.
Polish-Lithuanian politicians and commentators analysed their
politics primarily in moral terms, arguing that the Commonwealth
existed for the promotion of virtue, and depended for its survival
upon on the retention of virtue among rulers and citizens. They
analysed the acute political dysfunction that the Commonwealth
experienced from the late seventeenth century as the result of
corruption in the body politic. Proposals for reform of the
Commonwealth's government aimed at reversing this corruption and
restoring virtuous government in the service of the common good.
Benedict Wagner-Rundell analyses the most important political
treatises, including reform proposals, of the late seventeenth and
early eighteenth century, to demonstrate how virtue was central to
contemporaries' understanding of the Commonwealth and its
situation. He also argues that a concern with promoting virtue
drove the development of local government during this period, and
animated efforts for reform of the Commonwealth at the Sejm
(Parliament) of 1712-13, and during the General Confederation of
Tarnogrod of 1715-17, a mass uprising by the Polish-Lithuanian
nobility against King Augustus II. Placing the subject in
international context, Common Wealth, Common Good argues that the
Polish-Lithuanian political tradition's continuing preoccupation
with virtue set it apart from republican traditions elsewhere in
early-modern Europe and North America, where thinkers were
beginning to consider whether self-interest could be harnessed as a
positive political force. The Polish-Lithuanian tradition's failure
to match such developments elsewhere in Europe arguably
demonstrates its backwardness: however, its emphasis on the need
for political systems to be underpinned by shared values still has
great relevance today.
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