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The Australian Commonwealth, a Republic and Republican virtue. by Conal Condren
No full texttag=1 data=The Australian Commonwealth, a Republic and Republican virtue. by Conal Condren
tag=2 data=Condren, Conal
tag=3 data=Legislative Studies,
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tag=6 data=Summer 1992
tag=7 data=31-34.
tag=8 data=CONSTITUTION
tag=10 data=Whether the Commonwealth of Australia should become a republic is an intriguing question.
tag=11 data=1993/5/2
tag=12 data=93/0063
tag=13 data=CABWhether the Commonwealth of Australia should become a republic is an intriguing question
Hobbes, the Scriblerians and the history of philosophy
No full textSatire was core to the work of Thomas Hobbes although his critics also used it as a weapon to ridicule him. Condren uses Hobbes as an example to demonstrate that an examination of the persona is needed to advance our understanding of a writer's philosophy. He demonstrates that satire and philosophy were closely linked during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a new perspective on the nature of philosophy during this period. [from publisher's website
Skepticism and political constancy: Richard II and the garden scene as a “model of state”
No full textMany readers have taken the garden scene in Richard II and the voice of its Gardener to constitute a relatively straightforward statement of Shakespeare's notions of good government and constancy in political conduct, in stark contrast to the political disorder depicted in the play. I argue, however, that read in the context of the political and moral issues Shakespeare explored, its value or even relevance to his political world is questionable. The choric voice of the Gardener was not necessarily Shakespeare's. The dramatic point may have been to present, without resolving, the dissonance between the Gardener's vision and the imponderables of political conduct lying beyond his tiny realm
Understanding Shakespeare's perfect prince: Henry V, the ethics of office and the French prisoners
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Historiographical myth, discipline, and contextual distortion
No full textAlthough academic disciplines are given to mythologising their own histories, corrective historicisation is no straightforward matter. Anachronisms are most difficult to avoid where our own tacit understandings of the world are used to help structure contexts that are themselves often unstable and indeterminate. This is often the case in attempts to relate agents and propositions to a context of pre-existing problems. Propositions and concepts that are the result of satiric reduction, or unintended consequence, disrupt narrative sequences that lead directly and neatly to present disciplinary identities
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