Newtonianism: How Thomas Paine Devalued the British Monarchy by Transforming John Locke's Empiricism and Social Contract Theory

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Newtonianism: How Thomas Paine Devalued the British Monarchy by Transforming John Locke's Empiricism and Social Contract Theory

Original language description

The article concerns Thomas Paine's Newtonian concepts of society and government in the context of the Age of Enlightenment. Its aim is to demonstrate how Thomas Paine reinterpreted Enlightenment political thought as proposed by the empiricist theorist, John Locke, by using the principles of Newtonianism. Paine's Newtonian politics is closely connected with his deistic faith. His political theory is devoted to the vision of a free society as a manifestation of the benevolent The Watchmaker. With this mission in mind, Paine attempted to devalue the contemporary models of the state of nature and social contract theory as interpreted by John Locke and to offer a more democratic version of these concepts. Paine's key ideas in this respect are expressed in his most famous works Common Sense, The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

American and British Studies Annual

ISSN

1803-6058

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

149-161

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85017890044