Johna Miltona droga ku rewolucyjnej dyktaturze. Część 2
John Milton’s Road to the Revolutionary Dictatorship. Part 2

Summary/Abstract: John Milton, an English poet best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, was also a great politicalpolemist of the times of religious flux and political upheaval. He used his pen in defense ofthe republican principles represented by the Commonwealth of England. Milton advocated theright of the people to hold their rulers to account, and thus implicitly sanctioned the regicide. Accordingto Skinner Milton offers a purely neo-Roman view of freedom and free states. He arguesthat, unless the people are able to govern themselves, they will live as slaves, under the will ofsomeone else. So, for Milton monarchy is an enslaving form of government. In this Article theAuthor argues, that Milton was not a partisan of mixed government as other republicans such asHarrington, Sidney and Nedham, but he prised and accepted revolutionary military dictatorshipfor the defense of revolution.

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