Marsilius of Padua is one of the few truly revolutionary figures in
the history of political philosophy. The first to propound the
separation of Church and State, he is considered the precursor to
subsequent political thinkers, from Machiavelli to Marx.
The Marsilian revolution consisted not only in a radical change
in the theory of the relations between religion and politics that
culminated in the Protestant Reformation and other central
developments of the modern era, but, even more importantly, it had
an effect on the whole conception of human beings -- their nature,
acts, values, and sociopolitical relations.
As Cary J. Nederman writes in the foreword to this new edition,
"Marsilius continues to speak to many of the salient issues of
modern political life, expressing his doctrines in a language that
has resonance and relevance. Whether in addressing the role of
citizenship as a buffer between individual and community, or in
explicating the foundations of religious toleration, the "Defensor
pacis" (and Marsilius' other writings) affords a distinctive
theoretical perspective that rivals that of any of the great
thinkers of the Western political tradition."
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