فلسفه سیاسی سنت روبرت بلارمین

An Examination of Cardinal Saint Robert Bellarmine's Defense of Popular Government and the Influence of his Political Theory upon the American Declaration of Independence Preface 7 Introduction 9 Three Causes of Opposing Political Theory 9 Cardinal Bellarmine 14 Bellarmine’s legacy of political thought: 18 Chapter 1: Bellarmine’s “More Useful” Democracy 21 Three forms of government 21 The “More Useful” Form of Government 23 Conclusion 26 Chapter II: His Theory of Popular Sovereignty 27 Source of Authority 27 Divine Right of Kings defined 28 How Scripture is to be interpreted 30 Natural law and the right to rule 32 King James complains 34 Summary 36 Chapter III: Constitutional Limitation 37 Reformation and Renaissance 38 Unlimited monarchy 38 Popular consent 39 Kings as source of Law 40 Chapter IV : Ecclesiastical Limitation 43 Power of the Pope 43 Concepts of Subordination: Distinctions 48 Spiritual and temporal power 50 Chapter V : International Relations 53 International Law 53 Just war 56 Conditions of just war 57 Immunities and Exemptions 63 The Catholic view of war 64 Chapter VI : Political Rights 65 Popular Sovereignty in the Middle Ages 65 Sovereignty vs tyranny 66 Conditions for forcing change 69 History 70 Summary 71 Chapter VII Civil Liberty ­ Human Equality 73 Civil Liberty Defined 73 Passive obedience 74 Virtues of a ruler 77 Democracy is for the dignity of every man 79 Chapter VIII : Religious Freedom 81 Definition of religious freedom 81 Stages of religious freedom 81 The nation-state and religion 82 Bellarmine against King James I of England 83 Mixing civil and religious authority 84 CONCLUSION 89 Source of democracy 89 Bellarmine the champion 89 Whom did they read? 91 Comparing Bellarmine 94 Bibliography 97 Sources 97 Historical and Critical Works 97