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Sovereignty (in Hobbes's philosophy) [ Political & Moral philosophy / Philosophy ]

… of man is the foundation of his philosophy on the origin of State, and provides a rationale for his theory of absolute sovereignty. The refutation of natural sociability had political and anthropological consequences. It gave precedence to … virtue of obedience. Concepts > Political & Moral philosophy People > Philosophy Mots-clés Civility Friendship Hobbes Sovereignty Violence War The refutation of natural sociability The majority of political treaties, from the age of Cicero … of the civil wars that racked England, giving his own analysis of human nature, and established his theory of sovereignty, that of a social covenant guaranteed by the sword. ‘The greatest part of those men who have written ought …

Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]

… > Politics & Society Places > Clubs & Societies Mots-clés Politics French Revolution Gender Democracy Violence law Sovereignty State Jacobin Club Faction Political clubs proliferated in France during the French Revolution and became a … in the late twentieth. It holds that the clubs’ toxic culture grew out of their ideological commitments to collective sovereignty and political virtue. 1  A more optimistic interpretation, which runs from Alphonse Aulard in the late … polarising society, they also claimed authority that the constitution did not confer to them. The principle of popular sovereignty may have helped justify this seizure of power, but the fact that the state was too weak to carry out the most …

Jacques Necker (and public opinion) [ Politics / Publicity ]

… it transitioned from the enlightened public to revolutionary bodies like the Third Estate and new concepts of national sovereignty.  Although never a complete fabrication of Necker’s politics, Necker’s perceived involvement in revolutionary … him in accusations of emboldening private interests at the heart of the state, a principle that revolutionary national sovereignty could not accept. Instead, the revolution bet on itself, issuing a new paper money, the assignats , backed by …

Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]

… a distinctive culture of sociability in Scotland’s cities in the decades after 1707. 5 . Daniel Gordon, Citizens without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994). One …

William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]

… invaded by Napoleon’s armies the previous year. His deep interest in international politics and his defence of the sovereignty of other countries suggest continuities with the political idealism of his youth. This sense of solidarity …

Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]

… 'promiscuous assembly' posed to female participants (Castle 96), it could also be seen as a potential utopia of female sovereignty, which 'engendered an ‘Amazonian race'', a society of 'women unmarked by patriarchy' (Castle 255) . 6 . …