HARRINGTON, JAMES. - English political writer, b. at Upton in January 1611, d. at Westminster on 11 September 1677. He spent a long time in Holland and then travelled for study in Denmark, Germany, Italy and France.
Of republican principles, he nevertheless remained devoted to Charles I, so much so as to arouse the distrust of the parliamentarians. In the Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) he presented his reflections on politics in utopian form. He considered landed property the foundation of state authority. Favourable in theory to democracy, he nevertheless advocated a mixed form of State, in which the limitation of private property and a regular rotation in the magistracies guaranteed political equilibrium and the free development of the individual.
Bibliography2 worksFor the Commonwealth of Oceana see: ed. H. Morley, London 1887; H. F. Russel Smith, H. and his Oceana, ibid. 1914. Cf. also R. Koebner, Ocea
BIBL.: For the Commonwealth of Oceana see: ed. H. Morley, London 1887; H. F. Russel Smith, H. and his Oceana, ibid. 1914. Cf. also R. Koebner, Oceana, in Englische Studien, 68 (1934), and the preface by R. De Mattei to the Italian translation of Oceana, Rome 1947.
Cotta, Sergio. “Harrington, james.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, coll. 1366–1367. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/harrington-james.
MLA
Cotta, Sergio. “Harrington, james.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, coll. 1366–1367. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/harrington-james.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_harrington_james,
author = {Cotta, Sergio},
title = {Harrington, james},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1366--1367},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/harrington-james}
}
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