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 xvii
... true that you do not need to read the first to get the point of the second . ( It is probable that successive popes never read Discourse I at all , and yet they got the point of Discourse II very clearly indeed . ) But that is not the ...
... true that you do not need to read the first to get the point of the second . ( It is probable that successive popes never read Discourse I at all , and yet they got the point of Discourse II very clearly indeed . ) But that is not the ...
Page xviii
... true both in theoretical disciplines and in practical wisdom ( the kind involved in making the right judgement and decision in moral and political matters ) : the law is an understanding forged from the understanding of many ' , 5 Thus ...
... true both in theoretical disciplines and in practical wisdom ( the kind involved in making the right judgement and decision in moral and political matters ) : the law is an understanding forged from the understanding of many ' , 5 Thus ...
Page xix
... true for the opposite of knowledge , ignorance or unknowing . Ignorance for Marsilius can be a result simply of being at an imperfect stage of development . His theory of progress in knowledge implies , however , that this is remedied ...
... true for the opposite of knowledge , ignorance or unknowing . Ignorance for Marsilius can be a result simply of being at an imperfect stage of development . His theory of progress in knowledge implies , however , that this is remedied ...
Page xxi
... of the desire of human beings for a sufficient life . But - and this is both the glory and the problem Christianity is actually true : its precepts really will bring reward or torment in a future life , and thus xxi Introduction.
... of the desire of human beings for a sufficient life . But - and this is both the glory and the problem Christianity is actually true : its precepts really will bring reward or torment in a future life , and thus xxi Introduction.
Page xxx
... are the priests of the true God , those priests have rightfully no power over temporals . From then on , however , 15 II . 21 , 2 . 16 II . 21 , 4 . he begins to build an argument for one overarching Christian XXX Introduction.
... are the priests of the true God , those priests have rightfully no power over temporals . From then on , however , 15 II . 21 , 2 . 16 II . 21 , 4 . he begins to build an argument for one overarching Christian XXX Introduction.
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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