Zeitlin, Samuel Garrett;
(2020)
Francis Bacon on peace and the 1604 Treaty of London.
History of Political Thought
, 41
(3)
pp. 487-504.
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Abstract
The article argues that for Francis Bacon (1561-1626), across his political, philosophic and literary career, the criterion for one's own peace is the weakness or incapacity or impotence of one's opponents. The article proceeds in two parts. The first outlines Francis Bacon's view of peace, particularly in relation to the Hobbesian view of peace which arises, in part, in opposition to it. The second lays out Bacon's view of peace in relation to his positions on several of the foreign policy issues of his own time, particularly treaties and empire, and the polemical uses to which Bacon put his view of peace to critique and criticize the 1604 Treaty of London.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Francis Bacon on peace and the 1604 Treaty of London |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/hpt/... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Francis Bacon; Thomas Hobbes; peace; political philosophy; war |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178400 |
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