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15 mag 2024 · Montesquieu, French political philosopher whose principal work, The Spirit of Laws, was a major contribution to political theory. It inspired the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Constitution of the United States. Learn more about Montesquieu’s life and work.
- Robert Shackleton
- Montesquieu was sent in 1700 to the Collège de Juilly, close to Paris, which provided a sound education on enlightened and modern lines. He left Ju...
- Montesquieu’s father, Jacques de Secondat, belonged to an old military family of modest wealth that had been ennobled in the 16th century for servi...
- French political philosopher Montesquieu was best known for The Spirit of Laws (1748), one of the great works in the history of political theory an...
- In 1721 Montesquieu published Lettres persanes (Persian Letters, 1722), a brilliant satirical portrait of French, particularly Parisian, civilizati...
13 mag 2024 · Giudici, e Montesquieu chi era costui Charles-Louis de Secondat, barone di La Brède e di Montesquieu (1689-1755), è noto per aver teorizzato i tre poteri dello Stato: governo parlamento giudici. La nozione è ormai universalmente accettata, almeno a parole.
22 mag 2024 · The first modern formulation of the doctrine was that of the French political philosopher Montesquieu in De l’esprit des lois (1748; The Spirit of Laws), although the English philosopher John Locke had earlier argued that legislative power should be divided between king and Parliament.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
13 mag 2024 · Montesquieu is famous for developing the theory of separation of powers, which is now incorporated into many constitutions around the world. He is also credited with doing more than any other author to secure the term “despotism” in the political lexicon.
24 mag 2024 · In examining the global problem of citizen security, de Montesquieu explored how the state impedes it and how criminal justice is deficient. The relevance of The Spirit of Laws stems from its novelty and from the accumulated fatigue of a class that had long been poor in 18th-century France.
2 giorni fa · Il nome di Voltaire è legato al movimento culturale dell'illuminismo, una corrente di pensiero del '700, di cui fu uno degli animatori e degli esponenti principali insieme a Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot, d'Alembert, d'Holbach e du Châtelet, tutti gravitanti attorno all'ambiente dell'Encyclopédie.
25 mag 2024 · Abstract. This speculative essay analyzes Montesquieu’s comparative method in his De l’esprit des lois (1748) and its contemporary legacies. It takes as its focus his theory of Oriental despotism. The first half of the paper focuses on two aspects of his method.
