Concept
Classical republicanism
Overview
Classical republicanism, also known as civic republicanism or civic humanism, is a form of republicanism developed in the Renaissance inspired by the governmental forms and writings of classical antiquity, especially such classical writers as Aristotle, Polybius, and Cicero. Classical republicanism is built around concepts such as liberty as non-domination, self-government, rule of law, property-based personality, anti-corruption, abolition of monarchy, civics, civil society, common good, civic virtue, civic participation, popular sovereignty, patriotism and mixed government.
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We have already seen that there are governments different from a monarchy, a democracy, and an oligarchy; and what they are, and wherein they differ from each other; and also aristocracies and states properly so called, which are derived from them; and it is evident that these are not much unlike each other.
Aristotle, Politics
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In this respect the form of government is either republican or despotic. Republicanism is the political principle of severing the executive power of the government from the legislature. Despotism is that principle in pursuance of which the state arbitrarily puts into effect laws which it has itself made: consequently it is the administration of the public will, but this is identical with the private will of the…
Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace
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BURKE AND FOX. PEERS AND COMMONS. NATURAL SELF-DESTRUCTION. THE CARNATIC. ABSTRACT THEORY OF HUMAN LIBERTY. POLITICS AND THE PULPIT. IDEA OF FRENCH REVOLUTION. PATRIOTIC DISTINCTION. KINGLY POWER NOT BASED ON POPULAR CHOICE. PREACHING DEMOCRACY OF DISSENT. JARGON OF REPUBLICANISM. CONSERVATIVE PROGRESS OF INHERITED FREEDOM. CONSERVATION AND CORRECTION. HEREDITARY SUCCESSION OF ENGLISH CROWN. LIMITS OF LEGISLATIVE…
Edmund Burke, Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Edmund Burke
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Philosophers who discussed Classical republicanism
Related ideas
- Edmund Burke
- The Prince
- French Revolution
- Feudalism
- Florence
- Athens
- Glorious Revolution
- Great Britain
- De Officiis
- City-state
- French Wars of Religion
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Immanuel Kant
- Individualism
- Isaiah Berlin
- Julius Caesar
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Republic (Plato)
- John Locke
- John Milton
- Discourses on Livy
- Giambattista Vico
- Karl Marx
- Positive law
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Niccolò Machiavelli.