- The Spirit of Law - Wikipedia
The third major contribution of The Spirit of Law was to the field of political sociology, which Montesquieu is often credited with more or less inventing The bulk of the treatise, in fact, concerns how geography and climate interact with particular cultures to produce the spirit of a people
- The Spirit of Laws - McMaster University
Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws, 19 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
- The Spirit of Laws (1748) - LONANG Institute
To the former of these he answers, by placing in one view the several passages in the Spirit of Laws directly leveled against the doctrines of Spinoza; and then he replies to the objections that have been made to those passages, upon which this injurious charge is founded
- Montesquieus The Spirit of the Laws
It describes a civilizational change through which power becomes domesticated, with built-in resistance to attempts to absolutize (or make total) political power As such, it is the Bible of modern politics, now made more accessible to English readers than it ever has been
- The Spirit of Laws | Definition, Montesquieu, Summary . . .
Montesquieu’s masterpiece is one of the most influential studies in the history of political theory and jurisprudence Montesquieu envisioned The Spirit of Laws as a major work of law and politics, and he applied himself accordingly to its composition
- Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws: Summary - philosophers. world
It describes the different forms of government (monarchy, aristocracy, republic, despotism, etc ) and the laws appropriate to each It also includes his famous theory of the separation of powers
- The Spirit Of Laws Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary
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- Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws | Cambridge University . . .
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
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