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Description:Fifty years after Lord Acton's death, the interest in his thought is greater than ever. At once a devout Catholic and a convinced liberal, Acton has much of great relevance to say on the relations of morality and politics, issues which confront this century more dramatically than they did his own age. He brought the mind of a statesman to the study of philosophy, politics and history, and the more other men knew the more they admired the extraordinary range of his knowledge. So it is that a long line of distinguished statesmen, scholars and critics, from Gladstone, Matthew Arnold, Creighton, Bryce and Maitland down to the historians of our own day, have recognised his quality and importance. The secret of his influence lies in his encyclopaedic knowledge, his universal standpoint, combined wit his gift of aphoristic expression.Mr. Fasnacht, who has been for some time secretary of Nuffield College, Oxford, has devoted many years to the Acton MSS. in the University Library at Cambridge. This book, based on these MSS. and on Acton's published work, gives an analysis, long overdue, of what Acton thought about the fundamental questions of political philosophy, which will be indispensable to every student of the great historian, and indeed of politics itself. The late Warden of Nuffield College, Sir Harold Butler, in his Preface calls this: "a timely and valuable contribution to the thinking of all lovers of liberty in this time of doubt and transition." It will serve also as an introduction to Acton's thought and writings for those to whom they are unfamiliar, and as a preface to the Collected Edition of his works now in preparation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis. To get started finding Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 265

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Publisher: Hollis and Carter

Release: 1952

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Description: Fifty years after Lord Acton's death, the interest in his thought is greater than ever. At once a devout Catholic and a convinced liberal, Acton has much of great relevance to say on the relations of morality and politics, issues which confront this century more dramatically than they did his own age. He brought the mind of a statesman to the study of philosophy, politics and history, and the more other men knew the more they admired the extraordinary range of his knowledge. So it is that a long line of distinguished statesmen, scholars and critics, from Gladstone, Matthew Arnold, Creighton, Bryce and Maitland down to the historians of our own day, have recognised his quality and importance. The secret of his influence lies in his encyclopaedic knowledge, his universal standpoint, combined wit his gift of aphoristic expression.Mr. Fasnacht, who has been for some time secretary of Nuffield College, Oxford, has devoted many years to the Acton MSS. in the University Library at Cambridge. This book, based on these MSS. and on Acton's published work, gives an analysis, long overdue, of what Acton thought about the fundamental questions of political philosophy, which will be indispensable to every student of the great historian, and indeed of politics itself. The late Warden of Nuffield College, Sir Harold Butler, in his Preface calls this: "a timely and valuable contribution to the thinking of all lovers of liberty in this time of doubt and transition." It will serve also as an introduction to Acton's thought and writings for those to whom they are unfamiliar, and as a preface to the Collected Edition of his works now in preparation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis. To get started finding Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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