Milton, Hobbes, Locke:
17th-Century English Political Thought
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Renaissance Antecedents
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Machiavelli's The Prince v. Augustine's City of
God
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Realpolitick v. Divine Providence
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Humanist Alternatives
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17th-Century English Political Thought
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The English Revolution
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James I and the Defense of Monarchy:
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Oliver
Cromwell (1599-1658) and "Godly Republicanism"
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James
Harrington and Classical Republicanism
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John
Milton's Republicanism: Ancient or Modern? Sacred or Secular?
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Biography
(1600-1674)
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Milton and the English Revolution
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Secretary of Foreign Tongues for the Commonwealth
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Political Writings
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Thomas
Hobbes (1588-1679) and the Modern Defense of Absolutism
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Biography
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Leviathan
(1651)
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Cartesianism and the "State of Nature" concept
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State of Nature = State of War
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Leviathan as necessity
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Freedom provided by state
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Secularism: State as human construct
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Of Liberty and Necessity (1654)
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John
Locke (1632-1704) and Modern Republicanism
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Biography
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Essay
Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
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Locke's sensationalism v. Descartes's innate ideas
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Locke's empiricism v. Descartes' rationalism
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Two
Treatises on Civil Government (1689)
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1st Treatise: Against Robert Filmer's Patriarcha
(1680)
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2nd Treatise: Social Contract Theory of Government
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State of Nature = State of Natural Sociability
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Government: a contract to protect "natural rights"
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Freedom guaranteed by state
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Natural rights: Life, Liberty, Property
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Right to revolution
