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Defining the Common Good - Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Paperback, Revised)
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Defining the Common Good - Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Ideas in Context
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The theme of this book is the crisis of the early modern state in
eighteenth-century Britain. The revolt of the North American
colonies and the simultaneous demand for wider religious toleration
at home challenged the principles of sovereignty and obligation
that underpinned arguments about the character of the state. These
were expressed in terms of the 'common good', 'necessity', and
'community' - concepts that came to the fore in early modern
European political thought and which gave expression to the problem
of defining legitimate authority in a period of increasing
consciousness of state power. The Americans and their British
supporters argued that individuals ought to determine the common
good of the community. A new theory of representation and freedom
of thought defines the cutting edge of this revolutionary
redefinition of the basic relationship between individual and
community.
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