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From Protest to Power: The Rise of the DUP
2018
In 2006, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) performed the most spectacular political turnaround in Northern Irish political history. The party worked against any Irish dimension in Northern Irish politics but took up power with Sinn Fein (SF) after the St Andrews agreement. This chapter discusses how the DUP emerged as the leading unionist party. The unionist ‘zero-sum-game’ went in favour of the DUP, but what motivated this political change in the unionist community? This chapter traces how the DUP moved from being a party of clear opposition to becoming a party of power. How did the party increase its electoral support while they at the same time manoeuvred themselves into a negotiating …
Political Theorizing as a Dimension of Political Life
2005
Quentin Skinner’s thesis ‘that political life itself sets the main problems for the political theorist’ marks a turning point in the study of the history of political thought. The Protestant princes who revised Luther’s doctrine of disobedience in order to save Lutheranism as a political force are the best example of this ‘Skinnerian revolution’ in The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. This is in accordance with his claim that principles play a legitimating and innovating role in politics. A tacit implication of the thesis is that we should not only read theorists as politicians but also read politicians as theorists. The politician possesses a special competence in discerning betwe…
Hugo Grotius – Individual Rights as the Core of Natural Law
2014
The Dutch humanist Hugo Grotius’ status as an important forerunner of the Enlightenment is well recognized, bolstered by his famous etiamsi daremus-dictum in the Prolegomena of De iure belli ac pacis. Less well known is that Grotius was the first central Protestant thinker to redefine the concept of ius, so that it was understood as individual or subjective rights. His understanding of ius as a personal moral quality, which he subsequently delimits as the expletive justice or perfect right to one’s own (suum), was given a pivotal role in his system of natural law. These concepts of ius and suum, which Grotius differentiates from other rationally derived moral principles, inspired John Locke…
La tesis de Weber en torno al capitalismo en el 500 Aniversario de la Reforma Protestante
1970
La tesis de Weber respecto a una hipotética huella del protestantismo en el «espíritu» del capitalismo ha sido ampliamente difundida. Sin desmerecer su planteamiento (la indemostrabilidad no resta verosimilitud), lo cierto es que, siendo una hipótesis difícilmente falsable, de ella han derivado formulaciones poco cuidadosas que vendrían a justificar las actuales circunstancias económicas con hechos religiosos diferenciales. Siendo la religión un hecho omniabarcador sin igual, tales circunstancias dependen de muchos factores. Se ha pretendido conferirle validez científica a partir de datos socioeconómicos de lo más variado. Algo aplicable también a quienes pretenden refutarle. La intoxicació…
“Hinc fidem cattolicam professus est, settam luteranam et omnes alias detestans” Protestants' conversion to Catholicism in the Syro-Palestinian regio…
2013
"Los granicznej krainy". Śląsk Cieszyński w socjologicznej refleksji Jana Szczepańskiego
2021
The article is an attempt to reconstruct the image of Cieszyn Silesia contained in the works of Jan Szczepański. The author presents the most important elements of the image of Silesia (the Polish part of Silesia, i.e. the Silesian Voivodeship at that time) drawn by Szczepański in the interwar period, and the image of Cieszyn Silesia in the post-war period. In his opinion, the essence of Silesian reality is conflict and struggle. Treating Cieszyn Silesia as a borderland area with a strongly outlined cultural, religious (Protestant) and aesthetic distinctiveness, he argues about its Polishness, emphasizing that it is a misunderstood region in Poland. The author believes that in Jan Szczepańs…
Recensione a Heiko Ullrich (hrsg. v.), Privatmann – Protestant – Patriot – Panegyriker – Pe- trarkist – Poet: Neue Studien zu Leben und Werk Georg Ru…
2018
La recensione analizza i contributi alla ricerca su un autore barocco poco cponoscoito ma il cui ruolo è di rilievo.
Il personalismo laico di Engelhardt tra ermeneutica e scetticismo
2012
L’articolo ravvisa uno dei principali motivi di interesse dell’elaborazione di Engelhardt nell’innestare il suo scetticismo etico-epitemologico sul terreno della Sittlichkeit hegeliana e dell’ermeneutica. Questo gli consente un approccio duttile, non acriticamente positivistico alla tecnologia, che va valutata entro la prospettiva fondamentale dell’accordo intersoggettivo tra stranieri morali, su cui si impernia il suo personalismo laico: un accordo che può essere solo di tipo procedurale, non sostanziale. Nell’articolo si avanzano invece delle riserve sulla considerazione troppo ottimistica del mercato economico e sull’unilaterale giudizio storico sulla Riforma protestante e sulle sue impl…
Recensione a: S. Rostagno, I predestinati. Religioni e religione nel protestantesimo, Torino, Claudiana, 2006
2009
Sangre de nobles, mártires y pecadores. Los caballeros de San Juan entre la reforma religiosa y la vida militar
2018
After the fall of Rhodes in 1522, the Order of St. John needed to recover new headquarters (which were finally established in Malta in 1530) and its reputation as militia Christi. This Religion in arms had now to redraft its chivalrous ideals within the new context of the Reformation and the Catholic Renewal. However, Hospitallers met this challenge partially and late, although they represented themselves as belonging to this glorious Religion. Such a dialectic between practice and theory is proved, for example, by an apologetic book published in 1619 in Italy and Spain, as well as by unpublished instructions in the late seventeenth century directed at the chaplains providing religious supp…