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According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from

John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of

This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the E