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Zealous Subjects: Active Participation in Early modern, Monarchical England
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Zealous Subjects: The Discourse of Honoring and Active Participation in Early-modern England
By Monicka Patterson-TutschkaFor the Western Political Science Association ConferenceSan Diego, California. March 2008.
Abstract:
The doctrine of “passive obedience” is familiar to political theorist studying early-modern British political thought. Englishmen, especially royalists, employed this doctrine in order to render passive obedience and passive disobedience morally legitimate. In this paper, I unearth the early-modern discourse of honoring. Royalist living in the seventeenth-century also summoned this discourse when explaining a subject’s political obligation. However, I argue that when we conceptualize political obligation in terms of honoring, rather than in terms of passive obedience, we must envision a Christian subject who is morally obligated to be active, rather than passive; willing rather than indifferent; zealous in his or her obedient actions rather than grudging. The account of political obligation offered through the discourse of honoring conjures up a relationship between a godly subject and a godly ruler according to which the former is a humble, obedient, blind, and dangerously zealous political subject.
Keywords: honor, political obligation, participation, passive obedience
Zealous Subjects: The Discourse of Honoring and Active Participation in Early-modern England
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Zealous Subjects: The Discourse of Honoring and
Active Participation in Early-modern England
By Monicka Patterson-Tutschka
For the Western Political Science Association Conference
San Diego, California. March 2008.
Abstract:
The doctrine of “passive obedience” is familiar to political theorist studying early-
modern British political thought. Englishmen, especially royalists, employed this doctrine
in order to render passive obedience and passive disobedience morally legitimate. In this
paper, I unearth the early-modern discourse of honoring. Royalist living in the
seventeenth-century also summoned this discourse when explaining a subject’s political
obligation. However, I argue that when we conceptualize political obligation in terms of
honoring, rather than in terms of passive obedience, we must envision a Christian subject
who is morally obligated to be active, rather than passive; willing rather than indifferent;
zealous in his or her obedient actions rather than grudging. The account of political
obligation offered through the discourse of honoring conjures up a relationship between a
godly subject and a godly ruler according to which the former is a humble, obedient,
blind, and dangerously zealous political subject.
Keywords: honor, political obligation, participation, passive obedience
Zealous Subjects: The Discourse of Honoring and Active Participation in
Early-modern England
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