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Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Miller, Peter N.

Hardcover

Series: Ideas in Context, Book 29

Religion General General Political ScienceBritish History

ISBN10: 0521442591
ISBN13: 9780521442596
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jun 16 1994
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book discusses the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain and sets it in its European context. The American Revolution and the simultaneous demand for wider religious toleration at home challenged the principles of sovereignty and obligation that underpinned arguments about the character of the state. At stake was a fundamental challenge to the way in which politics was described. The Americans and their British supporters argued that individuals, by voting and thinking freely, ought to determine the common good. These influential ideas continue to resonate today in the principles of one man, one vote and freedom of thought.

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