Considerations On The Causes Of The Grandeur And Declension Of The Roman Empire

Author : Charles Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
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ISBN 13 : 9781514328088
Total Pages : 174 pages
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Download or read book Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Declension of the Roman Empire written by Charles Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 174 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 : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher : New York : Free Press
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Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by New York : Free Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montesquieu's Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline was published almost midway between his Persian Letters (1721) and The Spirit of the Laws (1748). Today it is the least well known of the three, though not through any fault of its own. It may have been the first (and certainly was one of the first) of all efforts to comprehend the whole span of Roman history, and among such efforts it still has few if any peers -- even after a century and a half of the scientific historiography Montesquieu's own writings did so much to engender, and which has now grown disdainful of its philosophic forbears. It was probably one of the works Gibbon had in mind in his Memoirs when he wrote: " ... but my delight was in the frequent perusal of Montesquieu, whose energy of style, and boldness of hypothesis, were powerful to awaken and stimulate the genius of the age." But the context in which it must be understood, and from which it derives its chief value, is not that of history but of political philosophy. In the annals of this subject, it is one of the few instances when a philosopher has undertaken an extended analysis of any particular society, let alone of its entire history. The only comparable thing on Rome is Machiavelli's Discourses, to which it bears a deep inner kinship. But it is simpler than the Discourses, both in structure and meaning. For the most part it uses an historical framework, beginning with Rome's origins and ending with its collapse, and its teaching is in some ways less devious. - Introduction.

Author : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
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Total Pages : 540 pages
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Download or read book Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : British Museum
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Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ... written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881-1900 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of Books Concerning the Greek and Latin Classics in the Central Public Libraries, Newcastle-upon-Tyne written by Newcastle upon Tyne (England). Public libraries and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis Althusser
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Download or read book Politics and History written by Louis Althusser and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first two essays of this book, Louis Althusser analyses the work of two of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment - Montesquieu and Rousseau. He shows that although they made considerable advances towards establishing a science of politics, particularly in comparison with the theorists of natural law, they nevertheless remained the victims of the ideologies of their day and class. Montesquieu accepted as given the political notions current in French absolutism; Rousseau attempted to impose by moral conversion an already outdated mode of production. The third essay examines Marx's relationship to Hegel and elaborates on the discussions of this theme in Althusser's earlier books, For Marx and Lenin and Philosophy. Althusser argues that Marx was able to establish a theory of historical materialism and the possibility of a Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism not simply by turning his back on Hegel, but by extracting and converting certain categories from Hegel's Logic and applying them to English political economy and French socialist political theory.

Author : Library of Congress
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : U.S. Library of Congress. Catalog. 1869
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress ; Index of Subjects, in Two Volumes written by U.S. Library of Congress. Catalog. 1869 and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: