Locke's economic theory. Planification for the next classes.

12 Março 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

John Locke's theory on property. The value of work in the acquisition of property. The influence of Calvinist doctrine of salvation and Grace on human behaviour. The distribution of property according to labour and merit.

Locke's political theory

10 Março 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The role of John Locke and Lord Shaftesbury in the  agreement which paved the way to the constitutional monarchy.Analysis of excerpts of  Locke's  Second Treatise of Government.
Seminal concepts: 1 . The State of Nature,2 - The State of War; 3 - The Origins of civil society or commonwealth, or  civitas;4 - The forging of a compact: its inherent duites and rights,5- the division of powers and their definition - legislative as the supreme power.

Restoration

5 Março 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

From Restoration (1660) to constitutional monarchy.

The aftermath of Cromwell's death and the decisions on the political model: the restoration of monarchy with limited powers. The conversations with Prince Charles Stuart and the signing of Declaration of Breda.Charles II and the relationship between royal power and parliament. Charles' "Merry England": the end of the puritan way of life and the opening of theatres and public entertainment in general. The patronage of the arts and sciences, especially the Royal Society of London.The Great fire of 1666 and the opportunity of recreating part of the capital in neoclassic style.
The Exclusion Bill and its consequences after Charles' demise. The enthronement of the Catholic James Stuart and his attempt to turn to Catholicism. The reaction of parliament and the conversations with William of Orange and his wife, Mary Stuart. The signing of the Bill of Rights and the constitutional monarchy.

Thomas Hobbes's political theory

3 Março 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Thomas Hobbes's political theory (5/13)

Thomas Hobbes's essay on political theory as a response to the events he witnessed, namely, the civil war, the regicide, and Cromwell's rise to power . 

Approach to "Of Commonwealth",  Leviathan. Definition of seminal concepts: 1 - State of Nature in contrast with the nature of men;2 - State of War 2.1 .  The consequent need to enter into a  civitas or commonwealth;2.2 - Comparison between human societies and Aristotle's natural societies;3 - The implicit pact among the members of a community - covenant.4 - The kinds of Commonwealth;5 - The rights and duties of sovereign power.
Hobbes's defense of absolutism as the best possible system to ensure stability and the safety of people and their property. Comparison between Bossuet's and Hobbes's views on absolutism and the roots of its legitimacy.

The first Stuarts: the ideological shift and contestation,

27 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The frst Stuarts and English political pracice and external policy as distinct from the French and Spanish absolutist model.Charles I attempt to gain more power and the Parliament's contestation: the closing of Parliament and the "one man's rule period".Parliament's conflicting factions - Royalists and Roundheads - and the breaking if civil war in tandem with the king's arrest and condemnation.The Puritans' religious views of politics. Oliver Cromwell's rule.