Richard Tuck
Biographic Data
| ID | 1193536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Tuck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Tuck |
| SIGNATURE | TUCK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Active and Passive Citizens
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values The trustees Preface to Volume VII 1. The standard of living Amartya Sen 2. Moderation, rationality and virtue Michael Slote 3. Authority and inequality under capitalism and socialism Marrington Moore, Jr. 4. The paradoxes of political liberty Quentin Skinner 5. The uses of diversity Clifford Geetz The Tanner Lecturers Index to Volume VII
Democratic Sovereignty and Brexit
Richard Tuck is a prominent political theorist and historian of political thought who conducts wide-ranging studies on texts and authors ancient and modern, across disciplines and traditions. A thinker by training and teacher by profession, Tuck has not refrained from intervening in political discourses of our day, such as the question of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. This conversation with Tuck on political theory and its implica…
Democratic sovereignty and democratic government
Cartels and Conspiracies
The modern view of economic conspiracies stands in stark contrast to the view in the eighteenth century. Such classical economists as Adam Smith took conspiracy to be the natural result of our tendency to associate with one another. It manifested itself in collusion among both laborers and manufacturers to raise their income. By the mid-twentieth century, however, economists had come around to an entirely different view, according to which volunt…
The Rise of Rational Choice
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Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and the Restoration), Leviathan is an argument for obedience to authority grounded in an analysis of human nature. Since its first publication in 1991 Richard Tuck's edition of Leviathan has …
Rights and pluralism
The modern rights-bearing subject has been one of the principal examples for Charles Taylor of the modern self, the exploration of which has preoccupied him for the last fifteen years. In section 1.3 of Sources of the self, a section which contains in many ways the germ of the whole book, he observed that the modern moral world is significantly different from that of previous civilisations: all cultures have had some sense that human beings comma…
Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism
This is the first comprehensive evaluation of Charles Taylor's work and a major contribution to leading questions in philosophy and the human sciences as they face an increasingly pluralistic age. Charles Taylor is one of the most influential contemporary moral and political philosophers: in an era of specialisation he is one of the few thinkers who has developed a comprehensive philosophy which speaks to the conditions of the modern world in a w…
The English Revolution
The intellectual innovations represented by Grotius' work on history and political theory were eagerly picked up by a wider European public, hungry for just the modern extension of humanist ideas which he seemed to provide. His works were studied closely in France, particularly in the circle round Marin Mersenne to which Hobbes belonged, and I shall give some account of this in Chapter 7. But it was perhaps England which was the main breeding-gro…
Philosophy and Government 1572–1651
Philosophy and Government is a major new contribution to our understanding of European political theory which will challenge the perspectives in which political thought is understood. Framed as a general account of the period between 1572 and 1651 it charts the formation of a distinctively modern political vocabulary, based upon arguments of political necessity and raison d'etat in the work of the major theorists. Whilst Dr Tuck pays detailed att…
Award Recipients
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Scepticism and toleration in the seventeenth century
It is natural to suppose that there is – at the very least – a certain emotional kinship between a belief in the desirability of toleration and a sceptical attitude towards religious or ethical beliefs. At the back of many people's minds is a rough history of the modern world in which the dissolution of strongly held beliefs (typically, the relatively unified Christianity of the Middle Ages) was a precondition for extending toleration to men who …
Dangerous Positions
A New Date for Filmer's Patriarcha
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Warrender's De Cive
Natural Law and Natural Rights
Journal Article Book Review Get access Natural Law and Natural Bights. By John Finnis. (Oxford: Clarendon Press: O.U.P., 1980. Pp. xvi + 426. Price £15.00, pa. £6.95) Richard Tuck Richard Tuck Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 124, July 1981, Pages 282–284, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219123 Published: 01 July 1981
Natural Rights Theories
This book shows how political argument in terms of rights and natural rights began in medieval Europe, and how the theory of natural rights was developed in the seventeenth century after a period of neglect in the Renaissance. Dr Tuck provides a new understanding of the importance of Jean Gerson in the formation of the theories, and of Hugo Grotius in their development; he also restores the Englishman John Selden's ideas to the prominence they on…
Power and Authority in Seventeenth Century England
Many English political theorists of the mid-seventeenth century reveal in their writings an awareness that new political terminologies were needed to cope with the apparent breakdown of traditional ideologies. Such an insight is of course famously displayed by Thomas Hobbes and the early Hobbists such as Dudley Digges, in their treatment of orthodox Natural Law doctrines - ‘if we looke backe to the Law of Nature, we shall finde that the people wo…
Warrender's De Cive
Power and Authority in Seventeenth Century England
Many English political theorists of the mid-seventeenth century reveal in their writings an awareness that new political terminologies were needed to cope with the apparent breakdown of traditional ideologies. Such an insight is of course famously displayed by Thomas Hobbes and the early Hobbists such as Dudley Digges, in their treatment of orthodox Natural Law doctrines - ‘if we looke backe to the Law of Nature, we shall finde that the people wo…
Democratic Sovereignty and Brexit
Richard Tuck is a prominent political theorist and historian of political thought who conducts wide-ranging studies on texts and authors ancient and modern, across disciplines and traditions. A thinker by training and teacher by profession, Tuck has not refrained from intervening in political discourses of our day, such as the question of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. This conversation with Tuck on political theory and its implica…
Cartels and Conspiracies
The modern view of economic conspiracies stands in stark contrast to the view in the eighteenth century. Such classical economists as Adam Smith took conspiracy to be the natural result of our tendency to associate with one another. It manifested itself in collusion among both laborers and manufacturers to raise their income. By the mid-twentieth century, however, economists had come around to an entirely different view, according to which volunt…
Dangerous Positions
A New Date for Filmer's Patriarcha
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Natural Law and Natural Rights
Journal Article Book Review Get access Natural Law and Natural Bights. By John Finnis. (Oxford: Clarendon Press: O.U.P., 1980. Pp. xvi + 426. Price £15.00, pa. £6.95) Richard Tuck Richard Tuck Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 124, July 1981, Pages 282–284, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219123 Published: 01 July 1981
Power and Authority in Seventeenth Century England
Many English political theorists of the mid-seventeenth century reveal in their writings an awareness that new political terminologies were needed to cope with the apparent breakdown of traditional ideologies. Such an insight is of course famously displayed by Thomas Hobbes and the early Hobbists such as Dudley Digges, in their treatment of orthodox Natural Law doctrines - ‘if we looke backe to the Law of Nature, we shall finde that the people wo…
Natural Rights Theories
This book shows how political argument in terms of rights and natural rights began in medieval Europe, and how the theory of natural rights was developed in the seventeenth century after a period of neglect in the Renaissance. Dr Tuck provides a new understanding of the importance of Jean Gerson in the formation of the theories, and of Hugo Grotius in their development; he also restores the Englishman John Selden's ideas to the prominence they on…
Natural Law and Natural Rights
Journal Article Book Review Get access Natural Law and Natural Bights. By John Finnis. (Oxford: Clarendon Press: O.U.P., 1980. Pp. xvi + 426. Price £15.00, pa. £6.95) Richard Tuck Richard Tuck Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 124, July 1981, Pages 282–284, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219123 Published: 01 July 1981
Warrender's De Cive
A New Date for Filmer's Patriarcha
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Dangerous Positions
Scepticism and toleration in the seventeenth century
It is natural to suppose that there is – at the very least – a certain emotional kinship between a belief in the desirability of toleration and a sceptical attitude towards religious or ethical beliefs. At the back of many people's minds is a rough history of the modern world in which the dissolution of strongly held beliefs (typically, the relatively unified Christianity of the Middle Ages) was a precondition for extending toleration to men who …
Award Recipients
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The English Revolution
The intellectual innovations represented by Grotius' work on history and political theory were eagerly picked up by a wider European public, hungry for just the modern extension of humanist ideas which he seemed to provide. His works were studied closely in France, particularly in the circle round Marin Mersenne to which Hobbes belonged, and I shall give some account of this in Chapter 7. But it was perhaps England which was the main breeding-gro…
Philosophy and Government 1572–1651
Philosophy and Government is a major new contribution to our understanding of European political theory which will challenge the perspectives in which political thought is understood. Framed as a general account of the period between 1572 and 1651 it charts the formation of a distinctively modern political vocabulary, based upon arguments of political necessity and raison d'etat in the work of the major theorists. Whilst Dr Tuck pays detailed att…
Rights and pluralism
The modern rights-bearing subject has been one of the principal examples for Charles Taylor of the modern self, the exploration of which has preoccupied him for the last fifteen years. In section 1.3 of Sources of the self, a section which contains in many ways the germ of the whole book, he observed that the modern moral world is significantly different from that of previous civilisations: all cultures have had some sense that human beings comma…
Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism
This is the first comprehensive evaluation of Charles Taylor's work and a major contribution to leading questions in philosophy and the human sciences as they face an increasingly pluralistic age. Charles Taylor is one of the most influential contemporary moral and political philosophers: in an era of specialisation he is one of the few thinkers who has developed a comprehensive philosophy which speaks to the conditions of the modern world in a w…
Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and the Restoration), Leviathan is an argument for obedience to authority grounded in an analysis of human nature. Since its first publication in 1991 Richard Tuck's edition of Leviathan has …
The Rise of Rational Choice
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Democratic sovereignty and democratic government
Cartels and Conspiracies
The modern view of economic conspiracies stands in stark contrast to the view in the eighteenth century. Such classical economists as Adam Smith took conspiracy to be the natural result of our tendency to associate with one another. It manifested itself in collusion among both laborers and manufacturers to raise their income. By the mid-twentieth century, however, economists had come around to an entirely different view, according to which volunt…
Democratic Sovereignty and Brexit
Richard Tuck is a prominent political theorist and historian of political thought who conducts wide-ranging studies on texts and authors ancient and modern, across disciplines and traditions. A thinker by training and teacher by profession, Tuck has not refrained from intervening in political discourses of our day, such as the question of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. This conversation with Tuck on political theory and its implica…
Active and Passive Citizens
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values The trustees Preface to Volume VII 1. The standard of living Amartya Sen 2. Moderation, rationality and virtue Michael Slote 3. Authority and inequality under capitalism and socialism Marrington Moore, Jr. 4. The paradoxes of political liberty Quentin Skinner 5. The uses of diversity Clifford Geetz The Tanner Lecturers Index to Volume VII
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