Aristotelianism and English Political Thought: Variations on an Elizabethan Theme

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Abstract: This thesis traces the development of a vocabulary of "political Aristotelianism" in the English Renaissance. That vocabulary is defined and its historicity defended by an interpretation of major Aristotelian texts in the first chapter. The second through fourth chapters treat, in turn, the Aristotelian dimensions the thought of Sir Thomas Smith, John Case, and Richard Hooker in order to establish how their contributions to the history of English political thought were significantly inflected by their commitments to an Aristotelian theory of politics defined, chiefly, as an epistemology of citizenship. The encounter between that theory and the politics of Elizabethan England generated novel accounts of the English polity (especially as a "monarchical republic") and of political knowledge, itself.

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Date created	2021

Author	Thomas, Peter

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/mq661dm8274

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Preferred Citation: Thomas, Peter. "Aristotelianism and English Political Thought: Variations on an Elizabethan Theme." Stanford Digital Repository. 2021. https://purl.stanford.edu/mq661dm8274

Undergraduate Honors Theses, Department of History, Stanford University

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