THE “POLITIQUE” IN JOHN MILTON’S POLITICAL CRITICISM

Abstract

This article is meant to examine the John Milton's speech from the Lieutenancy works of kings and magistrates (1649) and Defense of the English people (1651). For this, we will base the perspective of the concept of "political" Pierre Rosanvallon to show that the author's thinking is an attempt to respond to problems that bothered him in the seventeenth century, and how it is inserted and influenced by the conflicts present in this period . The problems and conflicts were related to both the loss of prestige and power of Charles I as dissatisfaction of English society of the seventeenth century with respect to the King government. Thus, the hypothesis is that the argument of John Milton was created from the context marked by political instability and the importance of the Bible, understood by the society of the time as the source of all truth.