Can courage be a modern virtue? Seeking insight in Tocqueville, Mill, and Arendt by Berg, R

Subjects: “…Political Theory…”

Privacy: a political approach by Bogue, R

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Book review: J. Judd Owen: Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville. by Bejan, T

“…And, perhaps even more pressing for those of our profession, as Owen puts it in the introduction: “Is political theory, and in particular liberal political theory, as we find it today capable of responding, or even grasping what is at stake"?…”

Evangelical Toleration by Bejan, T

“…This article recovers “evangelical toleration” as a neglected tradition in early modern political thought with important consequences for contemporary political theory and practice. Many political theorists dismiss the prudential arguments made by “proto-liberal” thinkers like Roger Williams or John Locke in favor of toleration as a necessary precondition for evangelism and conversion as intolerant, unacceptably instrumental, and inessential to their deeper theories. …”

Teaching the Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on education by Bejan, T

“…It begins with Hobbes's diagnosis of the English Civil War as the product of the miseducation of the commonwealth and shows that education was a central and consistent concern of his political theory from an early stage. For Hobbes, the consensus on civil matters required for peace could be secured only through rigorous and universal civic education overseen by the sovereign in the universities, the pulpit, and the family alike. …”

Virtuous partisanship: Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay by Bol, G

“…As such, their theories differ greatly from both those conceptions found in their male contemporaries, such as Lord Shaftesbury, Charles Davenant, Edmund Burke and David Hume, but also from those found in the present-day political theory literature. These conceptions tend to be grounded in compromise, loyalty, friendship and reasonableness, which Astell and Macaulay decidedly rejected as partisan virtues. …”

A tale of two civitates: on the origins and meaning of the concept of subsidiarity by Ortúzar M, P

“…He also philosophically reinstalled ambivalence at the centre of Christian political theory and denied any special role for Rome and its emperors in the divine economy of salvation. …”