Montesquieu (1689–1755)
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Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline (1734) 196 eksemplarer
The Age of Enlightenment: An anthology of eighteenth-century texts: Volume 1 (1979) — Bidragyder — 26 eksemplarer
Om lagarnas anda eller det förhållande som bör råda mellan lagarna och respektive styrelses författning, seder,… (1990) 9 eksemplarer
Cartas Persas 7 eksemplarer
Lettres persanes - PROGRAMME NOUVEAU BAC 2021 1ère - Parcours Le regard éloigné (2019) 6 eksemplarer
Antologia degli scritti politici del Montesquieu 5 eksemplarer
De l'esprit des lois... 4 eksemplarer
Cahiers (1716-1755) 4 eksemplarer
Os Pensadores - Montesquieu ( Vol. 1 ) 3 eksemplarer
Grandeza y decadencia de los romanos Historia 3 eksemplarer
Pages choisies 3 eksemplarer
Le leggi della politica 3 eksemplarer
The spirit of laws 3 eksemplarer
Considerações sobre as Causas da Grandeza e Decadência dos Romanos (Portuguese Edition) (2003) 3 eksemplarer
The Spirit of the Laws-Two Volumes in One (the Hafner Library of Classics Number Nine) 3 eksemplarer
De l'esprit des lois tome 1 2 eksemplarer
De L'Esprint des Lois 2 论法的精神 2 2 eksemplarer
Œuvres complètes 2 eksemplarer
Del espíritu de las leyes Tomó II 2 eksemplarer
El espíritu de las leyes (Volumen II) 2 eksemplarer
El espíritu de las leyes (Volumen I) 2 eksemplarer
Oeuvres, Geneve, 1777, 4 vols. 2 eksemplarer
Grandeur et décadence des Romains, Politique des Romains, Dialogue de Sylla et d'Eucrate, Lysimaque et… 2 eksemplarer
Persiska brev. 1 2 eksemplarer
Persian and Chinese Letters: Being the Letters Persanes (Universal Classics Library) (1901) 2 eksemplarer
L'Esprit des lois 2 eksemplarer
Perzské listy 2 eksemplarer
Lettres persanes suivies de Arsace et Isménie et de pensées diverses; Nouvelle édition, revue avec… (1900) 2 eksemplarer
Voyages 2 eksemplarer
DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIX - TOME TROISIEME SEUL - NOUVELLE EDITION REVUE CORRIGEE & CONSIDERABLEMENT AUGMENTEE PAR… (1764) 2 eksemplarer
Oeuvres de Montesquieu avec éloges, analyses, commentaires, romarques, notes, réfutations, imitations… (1826) 2 eksemplarer
The Spirit of Laws : including d´Alembert´s analysis of the work / By Baron de Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat .--… 2 eksemplarer
Ouvres de Monsieur de Montesquieu, nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & considérablement augmentée par l'auteur 2 eksemplarer
The spirit of laws 2 eksemplarer
OEuvres Complètes De Montesquieu: De L'esprit Des Lois, Livre Xxxi. Défense De L'esprit Des… (2010) 2 eksemplarer
Pensieri 1 eksemplar
De l'esprit des lois (French Edition) 1 eksemplar
Morceaux choisis 1 eksemplar
Montesquieu's Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans: A New Translation, Together… (2017) 1 eksemplar
Persian Letters 1 eksemplar
Riflessioni e pensieri inediti, 1716-1755 1 eksemplar
Lettres persanes (1721): les 2 Tomes 1 eksemplar
Perzsa levelek 1 eksemplar
Lettres Persanes, Introduction d'Etiemble 1 eksemplar
Montequieu. L'Esprit des lois : . Texte établi par Jeannine Kohn et René Etiemble, annoté par… 1 eksemplar
Lettres Persanes, Vol. 2: Édition Revue Et Annotée d'Après les Manuscrits du Chateau de la Brède; Avec un… (2018) 1 eksemplar
The Spirit of the Laws: Political Study 1 eksemplar
The Spirit Of Laws 1 eksemplar
L'esprit des lois 1 eksemplar
Grandeur et Decadence des Romains, Politique des Romains, Dialogue de Sylla et d"Eucrate Lysimaque et Pensees-Lettres… (1857) 1 eksemplar
The Spirit of Laws-Volume 1 1 eksemplar
La libertad política 1 eksemplar
The spirit of laws, Volume 1 of 2 1 eksemplar
Del espíritu, de las leyes 1 eksemplar
Montesquieu (volume primo) 1 eksemplar
Montesquieu (volume secondo) 1 eksemplar
Montesquieu. De l'Esprit des lois : Texte établi avec introduction, notes et relevé de variantes par… (1962) 1 eksemplar
L'Esprit des lois, suivi de la Défense de l'Esprit des lois (Généralités) (French… (2020) 1 eksemplar
Montesquieu: 1689-1755 1 eksemplar
Oeuvres de Montesquieu avec éloges, analyses, commentaires, romarques, notes, réfutations,… (1826) 1 eksemplar
Considerations (extraits) 1 eksemplar
Lettres persanes : Considérations : extraits 1 eksemplar
Œuvres 1 eksemplar
The temple of Gnidus (German Edition) 1 eksemplar
Oeuvres completes 1 eksemplar
Pensieri (BUR PILLOLE) (Italian Edition) 1 eksemplar
El Espíritu De Las Leyes 1 eksemplar
Scritti postumi (1757-2006): i miei pensieri, i miei viaggi, saggi, romanzi filosofici, memorie e discorsi accademici,… (2017) 1 eksemplar
HLo Ispirito delle leggi 1 eksemplar
The Persian letters 1 eksemplar
Extraits de l'Esprit des Lois Et des Œuvres Diverses (Classic Reprint) (French Edition) (2018) 1 eksemplar
Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence: avec le Dialogue de Sylla… 1 eksemplar
Esprit des lois : livres I-V 1 eksemplar
De l'esprit des lois (Tome 1) (Garnier Flammarion / Philosophie) (French Edition) (2016) 1 eksemplar
De L'Esprit des Lois: Tome Cinquième 1 eksemplar
De l'esprit des loix/ 1 Œuvres complètes de Montesquieu / [texte établi et présenté par Jean Brethe de… 1 eksemplar
The Persian Letters 1 eksemplar
Oeuvres complètes 1 eksemplar
The temple of Gnidus a poem from the French prose of M. Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. By John Sayer, M.A 1 eksemplar
Lettres persanes et considerations t. 1 extraits 1 eksemplar
Montesquieu, Pages choisies II esprit des lois 1 eksemplar
Peuvres 1 eksemplar
El espiritú de las leyes I.-II. 1 eksemplar
De L'Esprit des Lois: Tome Premier 1 eksemplar
De L'Esprit des Lois: Tome Troisième 1 eksemplar
De L'Esprit des Lois: Tome Second 1 eksemplar
De L'Esprit des Lois: Tome Quatrième 1 eksemplar
De l'esprit des loix/ 3 Œuvres complètes de Montesquieu / [texte établi et présenté par Jean Brethe de… 1 eksemplar
II L'esprit des lois extraits 1 eksemplar
Lo spirito delle leggi. vol.II Considerazioni sulle cause della grandezza dei Romani e della loro decadenza 1 eksemplar
De l'Esprit des Lois. I e II 1 eksemplar
Hinterlassene Schriften von Montesquieu nach seinem Tode als ein Nachtrag zu seinen Werken herausgegeben 1 eksemplar
De l'esprit des loix/ 2 Œuvres complètes de Montesquieu / [texte établi et présenté par Jean Brethe de… 1 eksemplar
De l'esprit des loix/ 4 Œuvres complètes de Montesquieu / [texte établi et présenté par Jean Brethe de… 1 eksemplar
The Persian Letters Vol 2 1 eksemplar
The Persian Letters Vol 1 1 eksemplar
Persian and Chinese Letters: Being the Lettres Persanes by Charles Louis, Baron De Montesquieu, Tr. And Introduced by… (2009) 1 eksemplar
Lettres persanes. 1 eksemplar
Montesquieu Tutte le opere (1721 - 1754) 1 eksemplar
OEuvres posthumes de M. de Montesquieu 1 eksemplar
Great Books 38 1 eksemplar
De l'esprit des lois 1 eksemplar
The Spirit of Laws (Vol. II) [Montesquieu] and Physics and Politics [Bagehot] -- 2 Volumes Bound Together [The World's… (1899) 1 eksemplar
The Spirit of the Laws in Two Volumes 1 eksemplar
The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1 1 eksemplar
The Spirit of Laws, Volume 2 1 eksemplar
The Persian Letters 1 eksemplar
Lettres persanes 1 eksemplar
Three Stories 1 eksemplar
Great Books: Vol. 38: The Spirit of Laws 1 eksemplar
Pensadores: Do espírito das leis 1 eksemplar
CONSIDERATIONS SUR LES CAUSES DE LA GRANDEUR DES ROMAINS ET DE LEUR DECADENCE - APPENDICE : BUFFON - COLLECTION… (1928) 1 eksemplar
De L´Esprit des Lois (Tome Premier) 1 eksemplar
De l'esprit des lois (Extraits Tome I) 1 eksemplar
De l'esprit des lois t. 2 1 eksemplar
Grandes et decadentes romanins 1 eksemplar
De l'esprit des lois Livre 1-8 1 eksemplar
The spirit of law 1 eksemplar
El espíritu de las leyes Tomo II 1 eksemplar
PENSIERI (Montesquieu) 2010 1 eksemplar
La separación de poderes: Sobre las leyes que configuran la libertad política, entendida esta en su relación con la… (2021) 1 eksemplar
Del espíritu de las leyes (II) 1 eksemplar
I lettres persanes: considerations 1 eksemplar
Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des romains et de leur décadence: Montesquieu (2020) 1 eksemplar
Cartas persas (tapa dura) 1 eksemplar
BiblioLycée Lettres Persanes Montesquieu Bac 2020 - Parcours Le regard éloigné (extraits) (2019) 1 eksemplar
De l'esprit des lois: extraits... 1 eksemplar
Considérations: extraits 1 eksemplar
Montesquieu : les lettres persanes 1 eksemplar
Lettres persanes: Le temple de Gnide 1 eksemplar
Lettres persanes (Bac 2020): suivi du parcours « Le regard éloigné » (Classiques & Cie Lycée (45)) (French… (2019) 1 eksemplar
Persian Letters (Oxford World's Classics) 1 eksemplar
O Gosto 1 eksemplar
Del espíritu de las leyes (I) 1 eksemplar
Despre spiritul legilor vol. 3 1 eksemplar
Scrisori persane. Caiete 1 eksemplar
Esprits des lois 1 eksemplar
Esprits des lois 2 1 eksemplar
Esprits des lois 3 1 eksemplar
Le temple de gnide 6 1 eksemplar
Grandeza e decadência dos romanos 1 eksemplar
Oeuvres complètes de montesquieu, précédées de la vie de cet auteur par l. s. auger . (1818) 1 eksemplar
Lettres Persanes. Ed. Antoine Adam. 1 eksemplar
Oeuvres Completes De Montesquieu volume 2 1 eksemplar
Vol. 21 - Do espírito das leis 1 eksemplar
THE TEMPLE OF GNIDUS; FOLLOWED BY CEPHISA AND CUPID, AND ARSACES AND ISMENIA. With a Preface by Octave Uzanne.… (1889) 1 eksemplar
Oeuvres 1 eksemplar
Do Espirito das Leis, v.2 1 eksemplar
Do Espirito das Leis, v.1 1 eksemplar
EL ESPÍRITU DE LAS LEYES 1 eksemplar
Montesquieu I 1 eksemplar
Montesquieu II 1 eksemplar
Lettres persanes 1 eksemplar
Del espiritu de las leyes 1 1 eksemplar
Des espíritu de las leyes II 1 eksemplar
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Les Étrennes de la Saint-Jean. [Par Caylus, Maurepas, Montesquieu e. a.]. 3-e éd., rev., corr. et augm. par les… — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Maximes du Duc de la Rochefoucauld, précédées d'une notice sur sa vie par Suard / Pensées diverses de Montesquieu /… — nogle udgaver — 1 eksemplar
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- de Secondat, Charles Louis
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- La Brède et de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de
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- Collège de Juilly
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- political philosopher
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- Secondat, Jean-Baptiste de (son)
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- Académie Française (1728)
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- Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, is generally known simply as Montesquieu. He was an influential Enlightenment social commentator and political thinker, still famous today for his philosophy of history and for his theory that the best government has clearly defined separation of powers.
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Print: COPYRIGHT: (1748/Translated to English 1750) ) 3/1/2005; PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing, LLC; 1st edition; ISBN 978-1432620790; PAGES 448; Unabridged
Digital: COPYRIGHT: 1/2/2019; PUBLISHER: e-artnow; ISBN B07MBFHWK2; 446 pages; Unabridged
*Audio (MP3): COPYRIGHT: 8/18/2011; ISBN: 9781483073712; PUBLISHER: Blackstone Publishing; DURATION: 22:24:24; PARTS: 22; File Size: 646023 KB; Unabridged
Feature Film or tv: No
SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
How I picked it: I don’t think I sought this one out, but just came upon it. I don’t recall for sure.
What it’s about: Customs, economics, laws of nature, government, religions, philosophies, and the effect of the interplay of all that on individuals. He discusses the ways that countries, past and present have governed themselves and prescribes what he believes is best suited for establishing a government. Wikipedia mentions that subsequent British and American governmental systems took many queues from this work, such as having three separate but interdependent administrative branches (executive, legislative, judicial) with the intent of maintaining governmental balance with the least susceptibility to tyranny and corruption.
What I thought: The vocabulary is such, and the concepts, that much of it requires longer consideration than allowed by reading straight through at the normal pace, so this took quite some time to get through, and some reversing/replaying. And it’s the kind of book that I would learn more from with each re-reading.
People of the author’s current time are often mentioned by first name only, as though the readers would know who is referred to.
I felt here that what was often considered a law of nature, was actually a law of religion (as evidenced in the statement that they are laws established by God—in his presumption that God, as he understood him, was the creator of nature). I also felt that the Baron was not all that familiar with “brutes”, as he says they are not affected by our fears—perhaps he was only referring to certain fears, such as those related to keeping up our good image, but I had the impression he meant fears in general—which would completely dismiss their obvious fears around survival—he also says they don’t have our hopes—again, not a pet owner. You can’t tell me my dogs weren’t hoping to go for a walk, go for a car ride, receive treats, see me returning home soon after a long day away. He also states that animals have no positive laws (by which, he refers to legislations, or regulations. I disagree. Obviously, they have no written laws, but I believe many animals receive teachings from their parents that I would consider their version of laws. Despite this, I found the books (it was written as 31 books – here they are gathered together.) exceedingly informative.
AUTHOR:
Baron de Montesquieu
From Wikipedia___ “Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (/ˈmɒntəskjuː/;[3] French: [mɔ̃tɛskjø]; 18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher.
He is the principal source of the theory of separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions throughout the world. He is also known for doing more than any other author to secure the place of the word despotism in the political lexicon.[4] His anonymously published The Spirit of Law (1748), which was received well in both Great Britain and the American colonies, influenced the Founding Fathers of the United States in drafting the U.S. Constitution.”
TRANSLATOR:
Thomas Nugent
From Wikipedia____ “Thomas Nugent (c. 1700 – 27 April 1772 in Gray's Inn, London) was an erudite Irish historian and travel writer. Today he is known most of all for his travelogue of the Grand Tour, which was at that time popular particularly among English noblemen taking educational tours through Europe. His detailed descriptions of the France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands of the time provide a rich source for historians of the situation in the second half of the 18th century.”
EDITOR:
J. V. Prichard
(I found no biographical info.)
NARRATOR:
Wanda McCaddon
From AudioFile.com___ “When Wanda McCaddon began narrating audiobooks in the early 1980s, the famous publisher for which she worked paid female narrators less than men--$15 per recorded hour versus $25. "I just accepted it! Can you believe that? Times do change, thank heavens."
What hasn't changed is the quality of McCaddon's performances. This year, she turned in stellar renditions of Barbara Tuchman's THE PROUD TOWER and THE GUNS OF AUGUST , Thackeray's VANITY FAIR , and Austen's SENSE AND SENSIBILITY .
English-born McCaddon, who also narrates under the names Donada Peters and Nadia May, has an unerring ear for British and colonial accents, and most European ones. Occasionally, though, she has to go in search of the right sound. When she needed an accent from Sligo, a small northwestern pocket of Ireland, for Sebastian Barry's new novel, THE SECRET SCRIPTURE , she found help in an audio archive of international English dialects. It yielded 90 seconds of a Sligo voice, which, she says, "I played every half hour or so as I was recording to remind me of the right sound."”
GENRE:
Law, Politics, Nonfiction
SAMPLE QUOTATION: From Book I, Chapter 1:
“God is related to the universe as creator and preserver; the laws by which he created all things, are those by which he preserves them. He acts according to these rules because he knows them; he knows them because he made them; and he made them because they are relative to his wisdom and power.
As we see that the world, though formed by the motion of matter, and void of understanding, subsists through so long a succession of ages, its motions must certainly be directed by invariable laws: and could we imagine another world, it must also have constant rules, or must inevitably perish.
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, suppose the laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say, that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
These rules are a fixt and invariable relation. In bodies moved the motion is received, increased, diminished, lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity, each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
Particular intelligent beings may have laws of their own making, but they have some likewise which they never made. Before there were intelligent beings, they were possible; they had therefore possible relations, and consequently possible laws. Before laws were made, there were relations of possible justice. To say that there is nothing just or unjust but what is commanded or forbidden by positive laws, is the same as saying that before the describing of a circle all the radii were not equal.
We must therefore acknowledge relations of justice antecedent to the positive law by which they are established: as for instance, that if human societies existed, it would be right to conform to their laws; if there were intelligent beings that had received a benefit of another being, they ought to be grateful; if one intelligent being had created another intelligent being, the latter ought to continue in its original state of dependance; if one intelligent being injures another, it deserves a retaliation of the injury, and so on.
But the intelligent world is far from being so well governed as the physical. For though the former has also its laws which of their own nature are invariable, yet it does not conform to them so exactly as the physical world. This is because on the one hand particular intelligent beings are of a finite nature, and consequently liable to error; and on the other, their nature requires them to be free agents. Hence they do not steadily conform to their primitive laws; and even those of their own instituting they frequently infringe.
Whether brutes be governed by the general laws of motion, or by a particular movement, is what we cannot determine. Be that as it may, they have not a more intimate relation to God than the rest of the material world; and sensation is of no other use to them, than in the relation they have either to other particular beings, or to themselves.
By the allurement of pleasure they preserve the being of the individual, and by the same allurement they preserve their species. They have natural laws, because they are united by sensations, positive laws they have none, because they are not connected by knowledge. And yet they do not conform invariably to their natural laws; these are better observed by vegetables, that have neither intellectual nor sensitive faculties.
Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have, but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but they are without our fears, they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it, even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.
Man, as a physical being, is, like other bodies, governed by invariable laws. As an intelligent being, he incessantly transgresses the laws established by God, and changes those which he himself has established. He is left to his own direction, though he is a limited being, subject like all finite intelligences, to ignorance and error; even the imperfect knowledge he has, he loses as a sensible creature, and is hurried away by a thousand impetuous passions. Such a being might every instant forget his Creator; God has therefore reminded him of his duty by the laws of religion. Such a being is liable every moment to forget himself; philosophy has provided against this by the laws of morality. Formed to live in society, he might forget his fellow creatures; legislators have therefore by political and civil laws confined him to his duty.”
RATING:.
4
STARTED READING – FINISHED READING
8/30/22 – 10/16/22… (mere)