Patriots, contracts and other patterns of trust in a polyarchic society: the Dutch 17th century
2005-12-14
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It is sometimes appropriate to look at things in a slightly different light, and transpose their meaning to a different level. In this contribution to patriotism in the early-modern period I intend to show that at least part of this deconstruction lived in the imagination of the actors of the period. Thus when I claim that patriotism in the late-sixteenth and seventeenth Dutch centuries might be regarded as one of the alternatives (and a discarded one, for that matter) in the quest for political and social stability, and that religion was considered a better candidate, I will try and validate this claim by textual proof from the sources.
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- dutch
- interest
- republic
- state
- patriotism
- church
- grotiu
- right
- religion
- society
- politic
- nature
- contract
- century
- argument
- government
- dutch republic
- spinoza
- order
- peace
