Montesquieu and the despotic ideas of Europe : an interpretation of the Spirit of the laws /

Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws is famous for overtly associating despotism with Asia and the Middle East and not with Europe. A scholar on this basis might be inclined to term Montesquieu an Orientalist, one who gazes at exotic foreign cultures in order to exert control over these distant peo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sullivan, Vickie B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Temas:
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, > baron de, > 1689-1755. > De l'esprit des lois.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527.
Hobbes, Thomas, > 1588-1679.
Plato.
Aristotle.
Aristotle
Hobbes, Thomas, > 1588-1679
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527
Plato
De l'esprit des lois (Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de)
Despotism > Europe.
Despotism > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Political science > Philosophy.
Christianity and politics > Europe.
Despotisme > Europe.
Despotisme > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Christianisme et politique > Europe.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Despotism > Religious aspects > Christianity
Christianity and politics
Despotism
Political science > Philosophy
Politische Philosophie
Autokratie
Diktatur
Despotie
Christliche Politik
Absolutismus
Europe
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The ideas of Montesquieu's modern European predecessors. The greatness of Machiavelli and the despotic disease of his politics
  • both princely and republican
  • Montesquieu's attack on the political errors of Hobbes
  • Christian ideas. Religious ideas and the force of Christian ones in modern Europe
  • The ideas of early Christianity, their absorption in Roman Law, and their abusive reverberations in modern Europe
  • The ideas of the ancient legislators. Montesquieu's opposition to Plato's belles idées and their diffusion
  • Aristotle's "manner of thinking" and the deleterious use of his ideas.

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