The Emergence of Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century: A Privileged Moment in the History of England, Scotland, and FranceIndiana University Press, 1994 - 164 Seiten "Through an analysis of the writings of Descartes, Pascal, Hobbes, Grotius, Pufendorf, Locke, and others, and culminating in the leading figures of the eighteenth century Scottish Enlightenment, Becker traces the decline of the medieval conception of society, characterized by the correct performance of duties and obligations and which prized above all else honor, heroism, and charitable benevolence. In its stead emerged a new view of society based on self interest and privacy and in which sociability was reduced to the minimum required to guarantee economic freedom and property rights. The result projected a notion of society as an abstract entity with a life of its own, independent of personal ties of duty and obligation. This concept came to fruition in England and Scotland at what Becker calls a "privileged moment," when political and religious stability combined with rapid commercial expansion. Although there were differences in the ways their societies were transformed, eighteenth-century England and Scotland provide the clearest expression of the newly emerged civil society."--BOOK JACKET. |
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A Privileged Moment in the History of England, Scotland, and France Marvin B. Becker. EMERGENCE OF CIVIL A PRIVILEGED SOCIETY IN THE MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND , SCOTLAND , AND FRANCE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE EMERGENCE OF CIVIL ...
A Privileged Moment in the History of England, Scotland, and France Marvin B. Becker. EMERGENCE OF CIVIL A PRIVILEGED SOCIETY IN THE MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND , SCOTLAND , AND FRANCE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE EMERGENCE OF CIVIL ...
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A Privileged Moment in the History of England, Scotland, and France Marvin B. Becker. THE EMERGENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY A Privileged Moment in the History of England , Scotland , and France MARVIN B. BECKER INDIANA ...
A Privileged Moment in the History of England, Scotland, and France Marvin B. Becker. THE EMERGENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY A Privileged Moment in the History of England , Scotland , and France MARVIN B. BECKER INDIANA ...
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... England , Scotland , and France / Marvin B. Becker . p . cm . Continues : Civility and society in western Europe , 1300-1600 . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-253-31129-2 ( cloth ) 1. England - Civilization - 18th ...
... England , Scotland , and France / Marvin B. Becker . p . cm . Continues : Civility and society in western Europe , 1300-1600 . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-253-31129-2 ( cloth ) 1. England - Civilization - 18th ...
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A Privileged Moment in the History of England, Scotland, and France Marvin B. Becker. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION xi CONTENTS ix I. Toward an Understanding of Civil Society I II . Civil Society and the Case of England and Scotland ...
A Privileged Moment in the History of England, Scotland, and France Marvin B. Becker. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION xi CONTENTS ix I. Toward an Understanding of Civil Society I II . Civil Society and the Case of England and Scotland ...
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Toward an Understanding of Civil Society I | 1 |
Civil Society and the Case of England and Scotland | 99 |
Epilogue | 115 |
NOTES | 127 |
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Adam Ferguson Adam Smith amour propre archaic argued arts authority benevolence bonds Britain Cambridge charity civil society clubs commercial society conception concerning contemporary critics culture David Hume decline Descartes discourse discussion duty economic Edinburgh eighteenth century eighteenth-century England England English Essay ethical explication favor forms France Francis Hutcheson French generosity gentry Gershom Carmichael Grotius Hegel heroic Highland History Hobbes Hobbes's honor human nature Hume's ideals ideas improvement individual intellectual interest Jacobite John John Locke justice labor late seventeenth liberty literary Locke Locke's London Lowland modern Montesquieu moral philosophy moral sense moralists nation natural law nobility novel obligation observe Oxford Pascal passions philosophers play political Pufendorf recent religious Scotland Scots Scottish Enlightenment self-interest self-love sentiment seventeenth century Shaftesbury social T. C. Smout term theory thought tion traditional trans virtue Walter Scott wealth word writings
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