Reflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlightenment. Included are histories of astronomy, ancient logic, and ancient physics; essays on the "imitative" arts and the affinity between music, dancing, and poetry; and a critical review of Samuel Johnson's famous Dictionary. which Smith originally published in the Edinburgh Review (1755-56).

The essays on philosophical subjects

Introduction: the republic, old and new 1. Freedom as non-domination 2. Social justice 3. Political legitimacy 4. Democratic influence 5. Democratic control Conclusion: the argument, in summary.

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On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy

Neorepublicanism may be defined as the attempt by current political scientists, philosophers, historians, lawyers, and others to draw on a classical republican tradition in the development of an attractive public philosophy intended for contemporary purposes. Three main ideas have been especially prominent in the neorepublican literature. First and most important is the conception of a free person as one who does not live under the arbitrary will or domination of others. Second is the associated conception of a free state as one that attempts to promote the freedom of its citizens without itself coming to dominate them. And third is the conception of good citizenship as consisting in a vigilant commitment to preserving the state in its distinctive role as an undominating protector against domination. The aim of the neorepublican research program is to rethink issues of legitimacy and democracy, welfare and justice, public policy and institutional design, from within the framework that these basic ideas pr...

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Neorepublicanism: A Normative and Institutional Research Program

Written around 1580, Philip Sidney's \"Arcadia\" is a romance and a love story, set in an ancient and mythical land. But, as Blair Worden now reveals, it is also a commentary on Elizabethan politics. Under the guise of pastoral fiction, Sidney produced a reflection on the misgovernment of Elizabeth I and on the failings of monarchy as a system of government. Blair Worden reconstructs the events amidst which the \"Arcadia\" was composed. The Queen's failure to resist the Catholic advance at home and abroad, and her apparent resolve to marry the Catholic heir to the French throne, seemed likely to bring tyranny and persecution to England. It provoked a radical political dissent which historians and literary critics have missed, and of which the Arcadia\" is an expression. \"The Sound of Virtue\" combines the close analysis of a literary text with the reconstruction of its historical context. It offers an approach to the relationship between the history and literature of the Renaissance.

The Sound of Virtue: Philip Sidney's 'Arcadia' and Elizabethan Politics

This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a critical role in shaping early modern political thinking. Kevin Killeen demonstrates how biblical kings were as important in the era's political thought as any classical model. The book mines the rich and neglected resources of early modern quasi-scriptural writings - treatise, sermon, commentary, annotation, poetry and political tract - to show how deeply embedded this political vocabulary remained, across the century, from top to bottom and across all religious positions. It shows how constitutional thought, in this most tumultuous era of civil war, regicide and republic, was forged on the Bible, and how writers ranging from King James, Joseph Hall or John Milton to Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes can be better understood in the context of such vigorous biblical discourse.

The Political Bible in Early Modern England

Republicanism : a shared European heritage

Volume 1: Introduction Martin van Gelderen Part I. Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty: 1. Freedom and apocalyptic thinking in early modern Lutheranism Thomas Kaufmann 2. Arminian trouble: Calvinist debates on freedom Martin van Gelderen 3. Libertas Ecclesiae in post-tridentine debates on church and state Jaska Kainulainen 4. Ecclesiastical independence and the freedom of consent Polly Ha 5. Freedom, virtue and Socinian heterodoxy Sarah Mortimer 6. From Selden to Mendelssohn: Hebraism and religious freedom Eric Nelson 7. Natural religion: Pufendorf and Locke on the edge of freedom and reason Hannah Dawson 8. Freedom of conscience, political liberty and the foundations of liberalism Tim Stanton Part II. Liberty and Liberties in Constitutional Thought: 9. The liberty of Italian city states Serena Ferente 10. Free and unfree states in Machiavelli's political philosophy Peter Stacey 11. Discourses on liberty in early modern Ragusa Lovro Kuncevic 12. Liberty and Liberties in early modern Poland-Lithuania Thomasz Gromelski 13. Liberty and liberties in Europe's federal republics Thomas Maissen 14. Roman law, German liberties and the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire Daniel Lee 15. The language of liberty in early modern Hungarian political debate Marton Zaszkaliczky 16. The language of liberty in Calvinist political thought John Coffey Bibliography Index of names Index of subjects. Volume 2: Introduction Quentin Skinner Part I. Free Persons and Freedom of Action: 1. Human freedom and Jesuit moral theology Annabel Brett 2. Freedom and self-possession: the case of Montaigne's Essais Felicity Green 3. Autonomy and inner freedom: Lipsius and the revival of stoicism Freya Sierhuis 4. Freedom of the will as a basis for equality: Descartes, Princess Elisabeth and Poullain de la Barre Martina Reuter 5. Language as a means and an obstacle to freedom: the case of Moses Mendelssohn Avi Lifschitz Part II. Free Citizens and the State: 6. Liberty and citizenship in early modern English political discourse Iain Hampsher-Monk 7. Free elections and freedom of speech in English republican thought Antti Tahvanainen 8. John Milton's free citizens and the politics of the family Rosanna Cox 9. Vattel's Rousseau: jus gentium and the natural liberty of states Theodore Christov 10. The state of freedom: Kant and his conservative critics Reidar Maliks 11. Freedom and state action in German Enlightenment thought Alexander Schmidt 12. The political conditions of free agency: the case of Mary Wollstonecraft Lena Halldenius Part III. Freedom and the Limits of Europe: 13. The idea of freedom in missionary writings about the new world Catherine Balleriaux 14. From European to cosmopolitan freedom Fonna Forman 15. Is political freedom an Islamic value? Michael Cook Bibliography Index of names Index of subjects.

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Freedom and the Construction of Europe

Introduction Quentin Skinner Part I. The Rejection of Monarchy: 1. 'That a republic is better than a monarchy': anti-monarchism in Early Modern Dutch political thought Wyger Velema 2. Anti-monarchism in English republicanism Martin Dzelzainis 3. Anti-monarchism in Polish republicanism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Anna Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz 4. Classical republicanism in seventeenth-century England and the Netherlands Jonathan Scott Part II. The Republican Citizen: 5. Citizenship and republicanism in Elizabethan England Markku Peltonen 6. Republican citizenship and civic humanism in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands (1477-1556) Karin Tilmans 7. Civic humanism and republican citizenship in early modern Germany Robert von Friedeburg 8. Civic humanism and republican citizenship in the Polish renaissance Edward Opalinski Part III. The Republican Constitution: 9. From the crisis of civil culture to the republic of Naples in 1647 Ivo Comparato 10. Aristotelians, Monarchomachs and Republicans: sovereignty and Respublica Mixta in Dutch and German, 1580-1650 Martin van Gelderen 11. Natural Law and Respublica Mixta: Dutch and German political discourses around 1700 Hans Erich Bodeker 12. Classical foundational myths of European Republicanism: the Jewish Commonwealth Lea Campos Boralevi 13. Republican politics in Early Modern Spain: the Castilian and the Catalano-Aragonese Traditions Xavier Gil 14. The idea of a Republican constitution in Old Regime France Kent Wright 15. Republicanism, regicide and republic: the English experience Blair Worden Index.

Republicanism and constitutionalism in early modern Europe

Introduction Quentin Skinner Part I Republicanism and Political Values: 1 Classical liberty and the coming of the English Civil War Quentin Skinner 2 Empire and liberty: a Republican dilemma David Armitage 3 Republicanism and toleration Simone Zurbuchen 4 The mechanisation of virtue: Republican rituals in Italian political thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Vittorio Conti 5 From virtue to politeness Iain Hampsher-Monk 6 From citizenship to civility: the critique of Republican virtue Jean Fabien Spitz Part II The Place of Women in the Republic: 7 Rights or virtues: women and the Republic Christine Faure 8 Women, Republicanism and the growth of commerce Catherine Larrere 9 Feminist Republicanism and the political perception of gender Judith Vega Part III Republicanism and the Rise of Commerce: 10 Republicanism and commercial society in the Scottish Enlightenment: the case of Adam Ferguson Marco Geuna 11 Scots, Germans, republic and commerce Fania Oz-Salzberger 12 Neo-Roman Republicanism and commercial society Bela Kapossy 13 Republicanism and commercial society in eighteenth-century Italy Eluggero Pii 14 Republicanism, state finances and the emergence of commercial society in eighteenth-century France - or from Royal to Ancient Republicanism and back Michael Sonenscher 15 Commercial realities, Republican principles Donald Winch Index

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Papers

Republicanism : a shared European heritage

Freedom and the Construction of Europe

Republicanism and constitutionalism in early modern Europe

The values of republicanism in early modern Europe

Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Contents of Volume II