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Author : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spirit of Laws written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles de Secondat
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of the Laws: Political Study written by Charles de Secondat and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spirit of the Laws is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law, published in 1748 by Montesquieu. Originally published anonymously, partly because Montesquieu's works were subject to censorship, its influence outside France was aided by its rapid translation into other languages. In 1751 the Roman Catholic Church added De l'esprit des lois to its Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Yet Montesquieu's treatise had an enormous influence on the work of many others, most notably: Catherine the Great, who produced Nakaz (Instruction); the Founding Fathers of the United States Constitution; and Alexis de Tocqueville, who applied Montesquieu's methods to a study of American society, in Democracy in America.
Author : Anne M. Cohler
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700631445
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Montesquieu's Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism written by Anne M. Cohler and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “American republicans,” notes Forrest McDonald, “regarded selected doctrines of Montesquieu’s as being virtually on par with Holy Writ.” But exactly how the French jurist’s labyrinthian work, The Spirit of the Laws, with was published in 1748, influenced the eighteenth-century conception of the republic is not well understood by historians or theorists. Anne M. Cohler undertakes to show the importance of Montequieu’s teaching for modern legislation and for modern political prudence generally, with specific reference to his impact on the Federalist and Tocqueville. In so doing, she delineates Montequieu’s contribution to political philosophy and suggests new ways to think about the formation of the American Constitution. To analyze the comparative politics found in the Spirit of the Laws, Cohler focuses on four fundamental principles underlying Montesquieu’s view of government: spirit, moderation, liberty, and legislation. In this endeavor she is guided by the conviction that the philosopher hews to the spirit of the laws rather than to the laws themselves—that is, to internal rather than external principles. Montesquieu, in Cohler’s argument, addresses the problem posed by the tendency to see human beings in light o universal abstractions at the expense of particular relationships, distinctions, and forms. To counter this tendency, which can be fostered by religion, Montesquieu develops a theory of prudence designed to support the world of politics an dpolitical life, necessarily an intermediate world occupying a space between universal abstractions and individual particularities. Cohler suggest that the Federalists and Tocqueville were most influenced by this preoccupation with spirit and moderation. James Madison and other Federalists, for example, were not drawn to limited government as a principled notion but rather as a consequence of understanding the context within which a moderate government must act not to become despotic. Similarly, Tocqueville extols democracy as self-government as an antidote to the dangers of democracy as a rule; the character of the governed shapes the nature of the governors. These and other conclusions will prove valuable to intellectual historians, political theorists, and students of religion.
Author : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
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Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of Laws written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584776072
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of Laws written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the landmark works of the eighteenth century, De L'Esprit des Lois had an immeasurable influence on jurisprudence and political thought, especially in America. It contained provocative and wide-ranging ideas on the sociology of law, the separation of political powers and the need for checks on a powerful executive office. First published in Geneva in 1748, it remains one of the most significant studies of political and legal theory ever written.
Author : Charles de Secondat
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of the Laws: Political Study written by Charles de Secondat and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Spirit of the Laws: Political Study,' readers are presented with a pivotal exploration of political theory through a diverse array of essays that delve into the nature, principles, and applications of laws across societies. This anthology embodies a rich tapestry of literary styles, from analytical prose to persuasive rhetoric, highlighting the versatility and depth of political thought. The emphasis on the separation of powers, alongside a keen analysis of the relationship between laws and factors like climate, religion, and economy, showcases the complexity and relevance of the works included. Through these essays, the collection paints a comprehensive picture of the legislative nuances that govern human interaction and societal development. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, stands as a monumental figure in the Enlightenment period, bringing together a confluence of ideas that have shaped the discourse on governance and liberty. His contributions, resonating through the ages, capture the essence of enlightenment thinking, advocating for political freedom and the refinement of civil society. Montesquieus influence extends beyond his time, inspiring revolutions and informing constitutional designs worldwide. Aligning with various historical, cultural, and literary movements, this collection underscores the evolution of political philosophy. 'The Spirit of the Laws: Political Study' is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the foundations of modern political systems. It offers readers a unique intersection of historical significance and contemporary relevance, inviting them into an enlightened dialogue on governance and law. This anthology is not only a testament to Montesquieus legacy but also a gateway to understanding the intricate balance of power that shapes societies. Scholars, students, and enthusiasts of political science will find in these pages a profound educational tool and a source of endless insight.
Author : Charles de Secondat
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of the Laws written by Charles de Secondat and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Spirit of the Laws,' Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, embarks upon a monumental examination of the principles governing laws and their relation to the nature and needs of the people they serve. This collection stands out for its rigorous analysis and broad sweep, encapsulating a variety of legal systems, from the democratic republics of antiquity to the monarchies of Europe. Montesquieus comparative methodology and keen insight into the mechanics of power and governance render this work a cornerstone in the field of political theory, highlighting its enduring relevance and contribution to Enlightenment thought. Montesquieu himself brings a background rich in legal and philosophical training, infusing his work with a depth of understanding that bridges the gap between empirical observation and theoretical constructs. This collection is emblematic of the Enlightenment's broader intellectual movements, advocating for the separation of powers and the promotion of civil liberties. Through his exploration of different governmental forms, Montesquieu provides a framework that has profoundly influenced both the drafting of constitutions and the development of modern political science. Readers are invited to delve into 'The Spirit of the Laws' not merely as a historical document, but as a vibrant collection offering invaluable insights into the machinations of law and governance. Montesquieus opus forms a critical nexus of philosophical inquiry and practical politics, extending an invitation to explore the intricate relationship between laws and the principles of social justice they aim to serve. This anthology is essential for those interested in the evolution of legal theory, the history of political thought, and the intellectual foundations of modern democracy.
Author : Thomas L. Pangle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226645525
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws" written by Thomas L. Pangle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spirit of the Laws—Montesquieu’s huge, complex, and enormously influential work—is considered one of the central texts of the Enlightenment, laying the foundation for the liberally democratic political regimes that were to embody its values. In his penetrating analysis, Thomas L. Pangle brilliantly argues that the inherently theological project of Enlightenment liberalism is made more clearly—and more consequentially— in Spirit than in any other work. In a probing and careful reading, Pangle shows how Montesquieu believed that rationalism, through the influence of liberal institutions and the spread of commercial culture, would secularize human affairs. At the same time, Pangle uncovers Montesquieu’s views about the origins of humanity’s religious impulse and his confidence that political and economic security would make people less likely to sacrifice worldly well-being for otherworldly hopes. With the interest in the theological aspects of political theory and practice showing no signs of diminishing, this book is a timely and insightful contribution to one of the key achievements of Enlightenment thought.
Author : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521369749
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-09-21 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spirit of the Laws is, without question, one of the central texts in the history of eighteenth-century thought, yet there has been no complete, scholarly English-language edition since that of Thomas Nugent, published in 1750. This lucid translation renders Montesquieu's problematic text newly accessible to a fresh generation of students, helping them to understand quite why Montesquieu was such an important figure in the early enlightenment and why The Spirit of the Laws was, for example, such an influence upon those who framed the American constitution. Fully annotated, this edition focuses attention upon Montesquieu's use of sources and his text as a whole, rather than upon those opening passages towards which critical energies have traditionally been devoted, and a select bibliography and chronology are provided for those coming to Montesquieu's work for the first time.
Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9781663620873
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of Laws written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442946172
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Persian Letters written by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persian Letters is a satirical novel in an epistolary form. Montesquieu narrates the experiences of two fictional Persians travelling through France. Through the characters, the barbarism of contemporary French life is analyzed from an outsider's perspective. He compares European and non-European societies, role of religion, systems of government, political authority, and the role of law.
Author : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of the Laws written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742511811
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Montesquieu's Science of Politics written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what constitutes the only English-language collection of essays ever dedicated to the analysis of Montesquieu's contributions to political science, the contributors review some of the most vexing controversies that have arisen in the interpretation of Montesquieu's thought. By paying careful attention to the historical, political, and philosophical contexts of Montesquieu's ideas, the contributors provide fresh readings of The Spirit of Laws, clarify the goals and ambitions of its author, and point out the pertinence of his thinking to the problems of our world today.
Author : Charles Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514328071
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)
Download or read book A Defence of the Spirit of Laws written by Charles Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment. He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions throughout the world. He did more than any other author to secure the place of the word despotism in the political lexicon. Montesquieu is credited as being among the progenitors, which include Herodotus and Tacitus, of anthropology, as being among the first to extend comparative methods of classification to the political forms in human societies. Indeed, the French political anthropologist Georges Balandier considered Montesquieu to be "the initiator of a scientific enterprise that for a time performed the role of cultural and social anthropology." According to social anthropologist D. F. Pocock, Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws was "the first consistent attempt to survey the varieties of human society, to classify and compare them and, within society, to study the inter-functioning of institutions." Montesquieu's political anthropology gave rise to his theories on government. When Catherine the Great wrote her Nakaz (Instruction) for the Legislative Assembly she had created to clarify the existing Russian law code, she avowed borrowing heavily from Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, although she discarded or altered portions that did not support Russia's absolutist bureaucratic monarchy."
Author : Thomas L. Pangle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022676494X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism written by Thomas L. Pangle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive commentary on The Spirit of the Laws uncovers and explicates the plan of Montesquieu's famous but baffling treatise. Pangle brings to light Montesquieu's rethinking of the philosophical groundwork of liberalism, showing how The Spirit of the Laws enlarges and enriches the liberal conception of natural right by means of a new appeal to History as the source of basic norms.
Author : Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107384826
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws written by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vickie B. Sullivan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648291X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe written by Vickie B. Sullivan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montesquieu is famous as a tireless critic of despotism, which he associates overtly with Asia and the Middle East and not with the apparently more moderate Western models of governance found throughout Europe. However, Vickie B. Sullivan argues that a creaful reading of Montesquieu's enormously influential The Spirit of the Law reveals the surprising result that he recognizes that Europe itself is susceptible to despotic practices - and that the threat emanates not from the East but rather from certain despotic ideas that inform Western institutions and practices. Sullivan guides readers through Montesquieu's sometimes veiled yet sharply critical accounts of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Aristotle, and Plato, as well as various Christian thinkers have brough forth despotic ideas in the form, for example, of brutal Machiavellianism, of Hobbes's justifications for the rule of one, of Plato's reasoning that denied slaves the right of natural defense, and of the Christian teachings that equated heresy with treason. Such ideas, Montesquieu shows, inform such revered European institutions as the French monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church. In this new reading of Montesquieu's masterwork, Sullivan corrects the misconception that it offers simple, objective observations, showing it to be instead a powerful critique of European politics that would become remarkably and regrettably prescient after Montesquieu's death, when despotism repeatedly emerged in Europe with virulent intensity. -- from dust jacket.
