Defensor Pacis: No 6 (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching) - Softcover

Marsilius Of Padua

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802064124 ISBN 13: 9780802064127

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1980

Synopsis

Marsilius of Padua is one of the few truly revolutionary figures in the history of political philosophy. The first to propound the separation of Church and State, he is considered the precursor to subsequent political thinkers, from Machiavelli to Marx. The Marsilian revolution consisted not only in a radical change in the theory of the relations between religion and politics that culminated in the Protestant Reformation and other central developments of the modern era, but, even more importantly, it had an effect on the whole conception of human beings - their nature, acts, values, and sociopolitical relations. As Cary J. Nederman writes in the foreword to this new edition, "Marsilius continues to speak to many of the salient issues of modern political life, expressing his doctrines in a language that has resonance and relevance. Whether in addressing the role of citizenship as a buffer between individual and community, or in explicating the foundations of religious toleration, the "Defensor Pacis" (and Marsilius' other writings) affords a distinctive theoretical perspective that rivals that of any of the great thinkers of the Western political tradition."

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About the Author

Alan Gewirth is Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Cary J. Nederman is professor of political science at Texas A & M University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802064124
• ISBN 13: 9780802064127
• Binding: Paperback