Alan Cromartie
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4983829 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan Cromartie |
| PRENOMES | Alan |
| SOBRENOME | Cromartie |
| ASSINATURA | CROMARTIE A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7770-2009 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Hobbes, Constant, and Berlin on Liberty
Isaiah Berlin’s ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ regards both Hobbes and Constant as supporting the negative version. Both took a favourable view of the freedom to live as one pleases. But this shared preference arose from radically different overall philosophies. Hobbes’s support for freedom as ‘the silence of the laws’ reflected his view of happiness as preference-satisfaction. Constant’s support for freedom as a sphere of absolute rights was suppleme…
The Testimony of the Spirit, the Decline of Calvinism, and the Origins of Restoration Rational Religion
The mid-seventeenth century turn to moralism in English Protestant theology – exemplified here by ‘Ignorance’ in Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress – involved a clear rejection of the Calvinistic doctrine of the ‘internal testimony’ of Scripture. The upshot was the emergence of a religious impulse that emphasised the salience of a ‘rational account’ of Scripture's credibility. The shift is conventionally traced through Richard Hooker, William Chillingwo…
Hobbes, Calvinism, and Determinism
In his debate with Bramhall, Hobbes claimed that his determinism could derive support from mainstream Calvinist theology. This claim is often taken at face value. But an examination of writers from Martin Luther to William Perkins reveals that mainstream Calvinism was not determinist. As Bramhall was able to show, Hobbes’s interpretation of these writers was characterized by crude misunderstandings. In this and in other respects, Hobbes’s profess…
Epieikeia and Conscience
St German changed the course of legal history by linking ‘equity’ with epieikeia. The Aristotelian concept originally denoted a personal virtue involving clemency and moderation, but could be taken to refer to a hermeneutic method requiring reconstruction of a law-maker’s intentions. St German’s understanding borrowed from Gerson the idea that laws tacitly incorporate ‘exceptions’ in the name of higher laws of God and nature. Equity/epieikeia was…
Field Manual 3-24 and the Heritage of Counterinsurgency Theory
The Counterinsurgency Field Manual 3-24 has been accused of being over-dependent on the counterinsurgency ‘classics’ Galula and Thompson. But comparison reveals that it is different in spirit. Galula and Thompson seek practical control; the Manual seeks to build ‘legitimacy’. Its concept of legitimacy is superficially Weberian, but owes more to the writings of the American Max Manwaring. The Manual presupposes that a rights-based legal order can …
Hobbes, History, and Non-domination
Pettit's and Skinner's stimulating books are open to historically-minded objections. Pettit's reading of Hobbes is Rousseauian, but he rejects the Hobbesian/Rousseauian belief that some modern people are driven by amour-propre/“glory”. If Hobbes is right, there is, in Pettit's sense, no “common good”. Skinner's treatment of the neo-Roman “theorists” over-estimates their self-consciousness and their consistency. Leviathan chapter 21 is not a respo…
The God of Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes seems to have believed in ‘God’; he certainly disapproved of most ‘religion’, including virtually all forms of Christianity. This article disentangles the link between his ‘God’ and his ‘religion’; and in so doing illuminates what Stuart writers meant by ‘atheism’. Hobbes agreed with Sir Francis Bacon that ‘atheism’ was typically caused by bad religion (that is, by ‘superstitions’ designed to serve the interests of the clergy). The Hobbesi…
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, Vol. 11
As a critique of common law by a great philosopher, this text should be of interest to anyone studying English political thought or legal theory.
Unwritten Law in Hobbesian Political Thought
In Hobbesian terminology, ‘unwritten laws' are natural laws enforced within a polity, by a non-sovereign judge, without some previous public promulgation. This article discusses the idea in the light of successive Hobbesian accounts of ‘law’ and ‘obligation'. Between De Cive and Leviathan, Hobbes dropped the idea that natural law is strictly speaking law, but he continued to believe unwritten laws must form a part of any legal system. He was unab…
The constitutionalist revolution
Journal Article THE CONSTITUTIONALIST REVOLUTION; THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL CULTURE IN EARLY STUART ENGLAND Get access Alan Cromartie Alan Cromartie Christ's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 163, Issue 1, May 1999, Pages 76–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/163.1.76 Published: 01 May 1999
Harringtonian Virtue
This article presents a reinterpretation of James Harrington's writings. It takes issue with J. G. A. Pocock's reading, which treats him as importing into England a Machiavellian ‘language of political thought’. This reading is the basis of Pocock's stress on the republicanism of eighteenth-century opposition values. Harrington's writings were in fact a most implausible channel for such ideas. His outlook owed much to Stoicism. Unlike the Florent…
Sir Matthew Hall 1609-1676
Journal Article Sir Matthew Hall 1609–1676: Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy Get access Cromartie Alan, Sir Matthew Hall 1609–1676: Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x, 264 pp. $59.95. Christopher Brooks Christopher Brooks University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 82–84,…
Sir Matthew Hale 1609-1676
The Printing of Parliamentary Speeches November 1640–July 1642
‘No member of this House’, proclaimed Bulstrode Whitelocke in February 1642 ‘ought to publish any speech or passage of this House, though it be very frequent.’ Very frequent it was; by this stage of the Long Parliament more than 100 purported speeches of named members were in printed circulation. Orations attributed to 45 M.P.s had been published, at a time when only ‘75 M.P.s made the motions, spoke to the issues, and delivered the reports of co…
Field Manual 3-24 and the Heritage of Counterinsurgency Theory
The Counterinsurgency Field Manual 3-24 has been accused of being over-dependent on the counterinsurgency ‘classics’ Galula and Thompson. But comparison reveals that it is different in spirit. Galula and Thompson seek practical control; the Manual seeks to build ‘legitimacy’. Its concept of legitimacy is superficially Weberian, but owes more to the writings of the American Max Manwaring. The Manual presupposes that a rights-based legal order can …
The constitutionalist revolution
Journal Article THE CONSTITUTIONALIST REVOLUTION; THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL CULTURE IN EARLY STUART ENGLAND Get access Alan Cromartie Alan Cromartie Christ's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 163, Issue 1, May 1999, Pages 76–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/163.1.76 Published: 01 May 1999
Harringtonian Virtue
This article presents a reinterpretation of James Harrington's writings. It takes issue with J. G. A. Pocock's reading, which treats him as importing into England a Machiavellian ‘language of political thought’. This reading is the basis of Pocock's stress on the republicanism of eighteenth-century opposition values. Harrington's writings were in fact a most implausible channel for such ideas. His outlook owed much to Stoicism. Unlike the Florent…
The Printing of Parliamentary Speeches November 1640–July 1642
‘No member of this House’, proclaimed Bulstrode Whitelocke in February 1642 ‘ought to publish any speech or passage of this House, though it be very frequent.’ Very frequent it was; by this stage of the Long Parliament more than 100 purported speeches of named members were in printed circulation. Orations attributed to 45 M.P.s had been published, at a time when only ‘75 M.P.s made the motions, spoke to the issues, and delivered the reports of co…
The God of Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes seems to have believed in ‘God’; he certainly disapproved of most ‘religion’, including virtually all forms of Christianity. This article disentangles the link between his ‘God’ and his ‘religion’; and in so doing illuminates what Stuart writers meant by ‘atheism’. Hobbes agreed with Sir Francis Bacon that ‘atheism’ was typically caused by bad religion (that is, by ‘superstitions’ designed to serve the interests of the clergy). The Hobbesi…
The Printing of Parliamentary Speeches November 1640–July 1642
‘No member of this House’, proclaimed Bulstrode Whitelocke in February 1642 ‘ought to publish any speech or passage of this House, though it be very frequent.’ Very frequent it was; by this stage of the Long Parliament more than 100 purported speeches of named members were in printed circulation. Orations attributed to 45 M.P.s had been published, at a time when only ‘75 M.P.s made the motions, spoke to the issues, and delivered the reports of co…
Sir Matthew Hale 1609-1676
Harringtonian Virtue
This article presents a reinterpretation of James Harrington's writings. It takes issue with J. G. A. Pocock's reading, which treats him as importing into England a Machiavellian ‘language of political thought’. This reading is the basis of Pocock's stress on the republicanism of eighteenth-century opposition values. Harrington's writings were in fact a most implausible channel for such ideas. His outlook owed much to Stoicism. Unlike the Florent…
Sir Matthew Hall 1609-1676
Journal Article Sir Matthew Hall 1609–1676: Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy Get access Cromartie Alan, Sir Matthew Hall 1609–1676: Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x, 264 pp. $59.95. Christopher Brooks Christopher Brooks University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 82–84,…
The constitutionalist revolution
Journal Article THE CONSTITUTIONALIST REVOLUTION; THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL CULTURE IN EARLY STUART ENGLAND Get access Alan Cromartie Alan Cromartie Christ's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 163, Issue 1, May 1999, Pages 76–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/163.1.76 Published: 01 May 1999
Unwritten Law in Hobbesian Political Thought
In Hobbesian terminology, ‘unwritten laws' are natural laws enforced within a polity, by a non-sovereign judge, without some previous public promulgation. This article discusses the idea in the light of successive Hobbesian accounts of ‘law’ and ‘obligation'. Between De Cive and Leviathan, Hobbes dropped the idea that natural law is strictly speaking law, but he continued to believe unwritten laws must form a part of any legal system. He was unab…
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, Vol. 11
As a critique of common law by a great philosopher, this text should be of interest to anyone studying English political thought or legal theory.
The God of Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes seems to have believed in ‘God’; he certainly disapproved of most ‘religion’, including virtually all forms of Christianity. This article disentangles the link between his ‘God’ and his ‘religion’; and in so doing illuminates what Stuart writers meant by ‘atheism’. Hobbes agreed with Sir Francis Bacon that ‘atheism’ was typically caused by bad religion (that is, by ‘superstitions’ designed to serve the interests of the clergy). The Hobbesi…
Hobbes, History, and Non-domination
Pettit's and Skinner's stimulating books are open to historically-minded objections. Pettit's reading of Hobbes is Rousseauian, but he rejects the Hobbesian/Rousseauian belief that some modern people are driven by amour-propre/“glory”. If Hobbes is right, there is, in Pettit's sense, no “common good”. Skinner's treatment of the neo-Roman “theorists” over-estimates their self-consciousness and their consistency. Leviathan chapter 21 is not a respo…
Field Manual 3-24 and the Heritage of Counterinsurgency Theory
The Counterinsurgency Field Manual 3-24 has been accused of being over-dependent on the counterinsurgency ‘classics’ Galula and Thompson. But comparison reveals that it is different in spirit. Galula and Thompson seek practical control; the Manual seeks to build ‘legitimacy’. Its concept of legitimacy is superficially Weberian, but owes more to the writings of the American Max Manwaring. The Manual presupposes that a rights-based legal order can …
Epieikeia and Conscience
St German changed the course of legal history by linking ‘equity’ with epieikeia. The Aristotelian concept originally denoted a personal virtue involving clemency and moderation, but could be taken to refer to a hermeneutic method requiring reconstruction of a law-maker’s intentions. St German’s understanding borrowed from Gerson the idea that laws tacitly incorporate ‘exceptions’ in the name of higher laws of God and nature. Equity/epieikeia was…
Hobbes, Calvinism, and Determinism
In his debate with Bramhall, Hobbes claimed that his determinism could derive support from mainstream Calvinist theology. This claim is often taken at face value. But an examination of writers from Martin Luther to William Perkins reveals that mainstream Calvinism was not determinist. As Bramhall was able to show, Hobbes’s interpretation of these writers was characterized by crude misunderstandings. In this and in other respects, Hobbes’s profess…
The Testimony of the Spirit, the Decline of Calvinism, and the Origins of Restoration Rational Religion
The mid-seventeenth century turn to moralism in English Protestant theology – exemplified here by ‘Ignorance’ in Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress – involved a clear rejection of the Calvinistic doctrine of the ‘internal testimony’ of Scripture. The upshot was the emergence of a religious impulse that emphasised the salience of a ‘rational account’ of Scripture's credibility. The shift is conventionally traced through Richard Hooker, William Chillingwo…
Hobbes, Constant, and Berlin on Liberty
Isaiah Berlin’s ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ regards both Hobbes and Constant as supporting the negative version. Both took a favourable view of the freedom to live as one pleases. But this shared preference arose from radically different overall philosophies. Hobbes’s support for freedom as ‘the silence of the laws’ reflected his view of happiness as preference-satisfaction. Constant’s support for freedom as a sphere of absolute rights was suppleme…
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