Argument and Authority in Early Modern England: The Presupposition of Oaths and OfficesConal Condren offers a radical reappraisal of the character of moral and political theory in early modern England through an exploration of pervasive arguments about office. In this context he explores the significance of oath-taking and three of the major crises around oaths and offices in the seventeenth century. This fresh focus on office brings into serious question much of what has been taken for granted in the study of early modern political and moral theory concerning, for example, the interplay of ideologies, the emergence of a public sphere, of liberalism, reason of state, de facto theory, and perhaps even political theory and moral agency as we know it. Argument and Authority is a major new work from a senior scholar of early modern political thought, of interest to a wide range of historians, philosophers and literary scholars. |
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... century political theory has been organized . Indeed , the very idea of early modern political theory is called into question . Professor Condren reconsiders the importance of oath - taking , and analyses anew the three great crises of ...
... century political theory has been organized . Indeed , the very idea of early modern political theory is called into question . Professor Condren reconsiders the importance of oath - taking , and analyses anew the three great crises of ...
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... century political theory has been organised . Indeed , the very idea of early modern political theory is called into question . Professor Condren reconsiders the im- portance of oath - taking , and analyses anew the three great crises ...
... century political theory has been organised . Indeed , the very idea of early modern political theory is called into question . Professor Condren reconsiders the im- portance of oath - taking , and analyses anew the three great crises ...
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... political autonomy 209 Part III : ' I , A. B. ' 11 An overview of the oath in seventeenth - century argument 233 12 Coronation oaths 254 13 The oath of allegiance of 1606 269 14 Engagement with a free state 290 15 The oath vii.
... political autonomy 209 Part III : ' I , A. B. ' 11 An overview of the oath in seventeenth - century argument 233 12 Coronation oaths 254 13 The oath of allegiance of 1606 269 14 Engagement with a free state 290 15 The oath vii.
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... Century England . That work outlined what I took to be the main patterns of word use in politics from which we hypothesise intentions , theories and dispositions . One initial proposition had been that the putative subject matter of ...
... Century England . That work outlined what I took to be the main patterns of word use in politics from which we hypothesise intentions , theories and dispositions . One initial proposition had been that the putative subject matter of ...
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... century England.22 My discussion offers a perfunctory sort of descriptive metaphysics . In Individuals , P. F. Strawson referred to the relative stability of the presuppositional commonplaces which were at once features of the least ...
... century England.22 My discussion offers a perfunctory sort of descriptive metaphysics . In Individuals , P. F. Strawson referred to the relative stability of the presuppositional commonplaces which were at once features of the least ...
Contents
An overview | 15 |
Ceremonies of office The kiss of the tuttiman | 36 |
Institutionalised office a sense of the scavenger | 54 |
The vocabulary of office | 80 |
Offices of the intellect player poet and philosopher | 105 |
Soul and conscience | 125 |
The authority and insolence of office | 147 |
The cases of patriot and counsellor | 149 |
I A B | 231 |
An overview of the oath in seventeenthcentury argument | 233 |
Coronation oaths | 254 |
The oath of allegiance of 1606 | 269 |
Engagement with a free state | 290 |
The oath of allegiance and the Revolution of 16889 | 314 |
Epilogue | 343 |
Bibliography | 353 |
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