Sovereignty and Solidarity: Moral Obligation, Confessional England, and the Huguenots
Sovereignty and Solidarity: Moral Obligation, Confessional England, and the Huguenots
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主权与团结：道德义务、忏悔的英格兰和胡格诺派
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2015
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A. Paras
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Benjamin de Carvalho;A. Paras
本文通过对16世纪后半叶英国新教国家及其与法国胡格诺派的关系和政策的研究，探讨了主权和道德义务的出现问题。作者们的出发点是这样一个事实，即近代早期英国主权的出现是由于一种教派身份的巩固而成为可能的，因此不能脱离当时的宗教政治。他们的论点基于这样一种历史阅读，即领土主权的逐步实施和与领土边界以外的“外来者”团结一致的同时实践，即道德义务在英国主权的形成中发挥了作用，而不是完全是这一过程的外生因素。这使作者有理由重新考虑道德义务与主权之间的关系。这一案例表明，主权的出现如何导致道德义务的扩大，而不是缩小。文章的主要贡献是质疑关于主权和道德义务的常见假设，并提供了一条沿着重新思考如何解释主权在近代早期及以后的出现的途径。
This article addresses the question of the emergence of sovereignty and moral obligation through a study of the Protestant English state and its relations with and policies towards the French Huguenots in the latter half of the sixteenth century. The authors take as their starting point the fact that the emergence of sovereignty in early-modern England was made possible by the consolidation of a confessional identity, and therefore cannot be divorced from the religious politics of the time. Their argument, based on such a historical reading of the gradual enforcement of territorial sovereignty and the simultaneous practices of solidarity with ‘outsiders’ beyond territorial boundaries, is that moral obligation played a role in the formation of English sovereignty, rather than being entirely exogenous to the process. This gives the authors reason to reconsider the relationship between moral obligation and sovereignty. The case demonstrates how the emergence of sovereignty led to the expansion of moral obligations rather than their narrowing. The main contribution of the article is to question commonplace assumptions about sovereignty and moral obligation, and to offer an avenue along which to re-think how one accounts for the emergence of sovereignty in the early-modern era and beyond.