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The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Hardcover, New)
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The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Hardcover, New)
Series: Ideas in Context
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The Greek Tradition in Republic Thought completely rewrites the
standard history of republican political theory. It excavates an
identifiably Greek strain of republican thought which attaches
little importance to freedom as non-dependence and sees no
intrinsic value in political participation. This tradition's
central preoccupations are not honour and glory, but happiness
(eudaimonia) and justice - defined, in Plato's terms, as the rule
of the best men. This set of commitments yields as startling
readiness to advocate the corrective redistribution of wealth, and
even the outright abolition of private property. The Greek
tradition was revived in England during the early sixteenth century
and was broadly influential throughout the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. Its exponents included Sir Thomas More, James
Harrington, Montesquieu and Thomas Jefferson, and it contributed
significantly to the ideological underpinnings of the American
Founding as well as the English Civil Wars.
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