3 Citations
Social Contract and Beyond: Sociability, Reciprocity and Tax Ethics
- LawEthics and Taxation
- 2019
Paying taxes, as determined by the legislature, is a moral obligation owed by members of a community to their community. Question is whether paying taxes has become an exclusively legal affair: a…
The invention of human nature: the intention and reception of Pufendorf’s entia moralia doctrine
- PhilosophyHistory of European Ideas
- 2019
ABSTRACT In treating human nature as a ‘moral entity’, imposed by God for reasons into which man could have no direct insight, Samuel Pufendorf reconfigured the architecture of natural law thought in…
‘Men are not born fit for citizenship, but must be made so’: Spinoza and citizenship
- Sociology
- 2009
The modern conception of citizenship contains often unacknowledged key background assumptions – about the role of rights in citizenship, about the citizen modelled on a liberal autonomous and…
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- HistoryJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
- 1988
LAWYERS have always had a bad press. Cicero (who should have known) spoke of them as mean and mercenary. Peter the Chanter in the twelfth century denounced their mendacity and treachery.' Martin…
The Humanist Portrait of Cosimo de' Medici, Pater Patriae
- HistoryJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
- 1961
H onoured by his fellow-citizens as Pater Patriae of Florence and condemned by Pius II as her paramour, the figure of Cosimo de' Medici still remains enigmatic. For although he was eulogized by the…
Cosimo de' Medici's Patronage of Architecture and the Theory of Magnificence
- HistoryJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
- 1970
Between 1436 and I450 Cosimo de' Medici was alone in Italy in spending very large sums of money on a series of building projects. This was opposed to the most generally expressed opinion of the time…
Medieval “Ars Dictaminis” and the Beginnings of Humanism: a New Construction of the Problem*
- ArtRenaissance Quarterly
- 1982
In the almost forty years since he first enunciated his thesis, Paul O. Kristeller's view that the Italian humanists were essentially rhetoricians has found wide acceptance. His analysis of the…