Question
A defense of this doctrine in John of Salisbury’s Policraticus cites a legend about Julian the Apostate and a soldier named Mercurius. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this doctrine, which Mencius defended in an unusual application of the doctrine of the Rectification of Names. Jean Petit delivered a speech on behalf of this doctrine for John the Fearless.
ANSWER: tyrannicide [or killing a king; accept descriptions indicating that killing a tyrant can be justified; prompt on regicide; prompt on deposing a king]
[10e] This philosopher, the author of the Pensees, criticized Jesuit justifications of tyrannicide in his Provincial Letters.
ANSWER: Blaise Pascal
[10m] In Western philosophy, the classic defense of tyrannicide appears in On Duties, a treatise by this philosopher. Macrobius wrote a commentary on this philosopher’s visionary Dream of Scipio.
ANSWER: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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