Polish republican discourse in the sixteenth century
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Polish republican discourse in the sixteenth century
(Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.], 129)
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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The order of the Res Publica : Polish political thought in the sixteenth century and the classical republican tradition
Ład rzeczypospolitej : polska myśl polityczna XVI wieku a klasyczna tradycja republikańska
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"This book is a modified version of the Polish original published in 2012 as Ład rzeczypospolitej: polska myśl polityczna XVI wieku a klasyczna tradycja republikańska (The Order of the Res Publica: Polish Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century and the Classical Republican Tradition)."--P. vii
Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-263) and index
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: classical republican tradition and the Polish republican discourse
- 1. Polish sixteenth-century political thought in context
- 1.1 The fifteenth-century origins of Polish humanism and political thought
- 1.2 The political and constitutional background
- 1.3 Specific features of sixteenth-century Polish political thought
- 2. The commonwealth (res publica): a free political community
- 2.1 The commonwealth (res publica) and the concept of political order
- 2.2 Justice and law
- 2.3 The paradigm of liberty
- 3. Virtue and the common good
- 3.1 Moral foundations of good order
- 3.2 Virtue and the public good
- 3.3 Citizenship and duties to the commonwealth
- 3.4 Manners, education, emendation
- 4. Mixed constitution and the institutional foundations of the commonwealth
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 The sources of power and the principle of supreme authority
- 4.3 The mixed form of government and the monarchia mixta
- 4.4 The king, senators, and parliamentary envoys
- 4.5 Free election
- Epilogue.
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