Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the PeaceCambridge University Press, 2005 M11 24 The Defender of the Peace of Marsilius of Padua is a massively influential text in the history of western political thought. Marsilius offers a detailed analysis and explanation of human political communities, before going on to attack what he sees as the obstacles to peaceful human coexistence - principally the contemporary papacy. Annabel Brett's authoritative rendition of the Defensor Pacis was the first new translation in English for fifty years, and a major contribution to the series of Cambridge Texts: all of the usual series features are provided, included chronology, notes for further reading, and up-to-date annotation aimed at the student reader encountering this classic of medieval thought for the first time. This edition of The Defender of the Peace is a scholarly and a pedagogic event of great importance, of interest to historians, political theorists, theologians and philosophers at all levels from second-year undergraduate upwards. |
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Page xiii
... citizens ) and other elected officials , including a podestà who was chosen from outside the city on an annual basis to administer the system of justice . Despite this de facto self - government , however , the politics of the city ...
... citizens ) and other elected officials , including a podestà who was chosen from outside the city on an annual basis to administer the system of justice . Despite this de facto self - government , however , the politics of the city ...
Page xiv
... citizens themselves . In this his play belonged to a political literature on the government of cities that had flourished in the thirteenth century , looking back to the virtues and political institutions of republican Rome . With the ...
... citizens themselves . In this his play belonged to a political literature on the government of cities that had flourished in the thirteenth century , looking back to the virtues and political institutions of republican Rome . With the ...
Page xxi
... citizens ; he seems to hold rather that human beings will always perform and react against such excesses , by force if necessary , just as they naturally desire to beat off the excesses of the wind and the rain . The solution to ...
... citizens ; he seems to hold rather that human beings will always perform and react against such excesses , by force if necessary , just as they naturally desire to beat off the excesses of the wind and the rain . The solution to ...
Page xxii
... citizens within the political community , or its ' prevailing part ' ( I leave this qualification on one side for the present ) . One ground for this is reason or practical wisdom . It was a commonplace of political literature that ...
... citizens within the political community , or its ' prevailing part ' ( I leave this qualification on one side for the present ) . One ground for this is reason or practical wisdom . It was a commonplace of political literature that ...
Page xxiii
... citizens universally than by a few . This is not just a question of cognitive ability , however . A few may have interests or affections that cause them to want what is divergent from the common advantage , and is only for their own ...
... citizens universally than by a few . This is not just a question of cognitive ability , however . A few may have interests or affections that cause them to want what is divergent from the common advantage , and is only for their own ...
Contents
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Principal events in Marsiliuss life | xxxvii |
Notes on the references | lii |
On the general bearing of the matters to be discussed | 3 |
On the first questions of this book and on defining | 11 |
On the final cause of the city and of the aspects of the city | 18 |
On the final cause of a certain part of the city sc | 31 |
On the other types of cause of the existence | 37 |
On the numerical unity of the supreme principate of a city | 114 |
On bringing the prince to account and for what reason | 123 |
world | 221 |
to judge them in this world to constrain them and | 232 |
On certain signs testimonies and examples from both | 242 |
On distinguishing certain terms which is necessary | 249 |
On the status of the said poverty which is habitually | 262 |
On some objections to what was determined in | 287 |
On the modes of instituting a royal monarchy and | 43 |
On differentiating and identifying the significations | 51 |
On the demonstrable efficient cause of human law | 65 |
Concerning some objections to what was said in | 73 |
On the qualities or characteristics of the perfect prince | 81 |
On the efficient cause of the best way of instituting | 88 |
Whether it is better for a polity to adopt a monarch by | 98 |
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