
HoP 417 - To Kill a King - The Scottish Reformation
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
The Antiquarian Fascination With Non-Christian Literature
Buchanan was a highly skilled philologist who helped spread that other revolution of the 16th century to Scotland. He cites Cicero in favor of the ideas that laws are introduced to kings under control. Buchanan's understanding of citizens, not just as dutiful subjects, but moral agents in their own right.
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