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Page 113
... political legitimacy . Thus Milton's ideal polity is one subject to the impersonal government of the rule of reason : " The happiness of a nation must needs be firmest and certainest when no single person , but reason only , sways.'85 ...
... political legitimacy . Thus Milton's ideal polity is one subject to the impersonal government of the rule of reason : " The happiness of a nation must needs be firmest and certainest when no single person , but reason only , sways.'85 ...
Page 175
... political liberation must first be established before political activism can be considered a legitimate enterprise . Political quietism is thus justified whenever these preconditions are absent . And there can , surely , be little doubt ...
... political liberation must first be established before political activism can be considered a legitimate enterprise . Political quietism is thus justified whenever these preconditions are absent . And there can , surely , be little doubt ...
Page 199
... political ' , this common culture collapses into two opposed political groupings , the two groupings which opposed each other at Putney and later at Burford . And clearly , these political differences are actually far more significant ...
... political ' , this common culture collapses into two opposed political groupings , the two groupings which opposed each other at Putney and later at Burford . And clearly , these political differences are actually far more significant ...
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The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Reason Triumphant | 94 |
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