Early stirrings of modern liberty in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas
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Abstract In a 2021 contribution to Politics and Religion , Jesse Russell wrote that St. Thomas Aquinas “had decidedly illiberal view of government.” He says “advocates government in which the people are not given public liberty” did “prepare way for mixed monarchy English constitution.” But places rule moral law above politics, endorses participatory government, prioritizes reciprocal duties rather than coerced conformity, favors regime with democratic representation, sanctions resistance tyrants. Each idea is an important component modern understandings freedom. Liberal democracy as constitutional arrangement, its various philosophical defenses, postdate by centuries. It would be anachronistic cast him their partisan. neither was he proto-reactionary: his political philosophy congenial free, limited belongs people.
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عنوان ژورنال: Politics and Religion
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1755-0491', '1755-0483']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755048323000159