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Rachel Foxley - The City and the Soul in James Harrington's Republicanism
Lectures in Intellectual History
English - October 21, 2014 17:15 - 51 minutes - 12.4 MB - ★★★★ - 52 ratingsHistory Society & Culture Philosophy philosophy culture education history lecture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.