The American Minervan

Tag: John Locke

  • Our Pre-Stoic Roots in Human Rights Theory in the United States

    Our Pre-Stoic Roots in Human Rights Theory in the United States

    On the sacred philosophical tradition underlying the foundations of Western Civilization influencing republican theory of human rights in the United States from Heraclitus of the Ioanian tradition, even preceding him. Tracing this history demonstrates how the concept of a divine (primordial) element becomes gradually secularized through the Renaissance Humanists, Enlightenment and Neo-Classical Republican traditions. ORIGINS…

  • The Loose Tradition of Republican Writers

    The Loose Tradition of Republican Writers

    In regards to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, it is a great reference for understanding ‘REPUBLICANISM,’ in two different, but closely related senses. The author of the article, Frank Lovett explains that in the first sense is meant, a loose tradition or family of writers in the history of western political thought: “Machiavelli and his…