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Rachel Foxley - The City and the Soul in James Harrington's Republicanism
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:51:46
Publish Date: 2014-10-21 17:15:00
Description: The political theorist James Harrington transformed and deployed many aspects of ancient thinking about the ethical character of the state in his political thought. In this paper, Rachel Foxley analyses Harrington's use of the correspondence between the city and the soul, arguing that this is a crucial mechanism enabling Harrington to attribute virtue to his ideal polity.
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