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Republics Ancient and Modern
Paul Anthony Rahe
出版UNC Press Books, 1994
主題History / Ancient / GeneralHistory / Ancient / GreeceHistory / Europe / GeneralHistory / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Political Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / DemocracyPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / American Government / General
ISBN080784473X9780807844731
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Zymp_kM33ZcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Volume I: Where social scientists and many ancient historians tend to follow Max Weber or Karl Marx in asserting the centrality of status or class, Rahe's depiction of the illiberal, martial republics of classical Hellas vindicates Aristotle's insistence on the determinative influence of the political regime and brings back to life a world in which virtue is pursued as an end, politics is given primacy, and socioeconomic concerns are subordinated to grand political ambition. Volume II: Where many intellectual historians discern a revival of the classical spirit in the political speculation of the age stretching from Machiavelli to Adam Smith, Rahe brings to light a self-conscious repudiation of the theory and practice of ancient self-government and an inclination to restrict the scope of politics, to place greater reliance on institutions than on virtuous restraint, and to give free rein to the human's capacities as a tool-making animal. Volume III: Where students of the American founding are inclined to dispute whether the Revolution was liberal, republican, or merely confused, Rahe demonstrates that the American regime embodies an uneasy, fragile, and carefully worked-out compromise between the enlightened despotism espoused by Thomas Hobbes and the classical republicanism defended by Pericles and Demosthenes. -- Amazon.com.