1st Edition
Politics and the Public Interest in the Seventeenth Century (RLE Political Science Volume 27)
By J. A. W. Gunn
Copyright 1969
370 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
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Routledge
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This book examines the concept of public interest against the background of English politics from the Civil War to the coming of the Hanoverians. These years witnessed both the rise of the modern notion of the public interest as a part of ordinary political language and the growth of a social philosophy of individualism. The new ideas challenged the status quo , based on order, reason of state... Read more
1. Private Men and Public Interest, 1640-60 2. Hobbesian Perspectives on the Public Good 3. Altruism and Interest in Harrington 4. Conscience and Interest After the Restoration 5. Economic Argument: The Public Interest Quantified 6. Philosophy, Politics and the Public Interest, 1660-1720
Biography
J. A. W. Gunn
