James Harrington is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists James Harrington as English political theorist of classical republicanism.
James Harrington was born at Upton in 1611. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He studied at Trinity College.
This was the century in which philosophy separated itself from theology and began to ask what could be known with certainty.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
James Harrington died in 1677, aged 66. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
