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Newtonianism: How Thomas Paine Devalued the British Monarchy by Transforming John Locke’s Empiricism and Social Contract Theory
Authors: Šklíbová Jana
Year: 2016
Type of publication: článek v odborném periodiku
Name of source: American and British Studies Annual
Publisher name: Univerzita Pardubice
Place: Pardubice
Page from-to: 149-161
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cze Newtonianismus: jak Thomas Paine znevážil britskou monarchii transformováním empirismu a teorie společenské smlouvy Johna Locka Článek se věnuje newtonovskému pojetí společnosti a vlády v kontextu osvícenského myšlení a ukazuje, jak Thomas Paine reinterpretoval osvícenské politické myšlení empirika Johna Locka aplikováním newtonských principů. Dále ukazuje souvislost mezi Painovým politickým uvažováním a jeho deistickou vírou. Paine kritizoval soudobé modely společnosti a navrhoval model demokratičtější. Článek analyzuje Painův model obsažený v jeho spisech. Thomas Paine; republika; společnost; politické myšlení; osvícenství; vláda; Newtonismus; John Locke
eng Newtonianism: How Thomas Paine Devalued the British Monarchy by Transforming John Locke’s Empiricism and Social Contract Theory 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. Thomas Paine; republic; society; government; Newtonianism; John Locke

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