The Spirit of Laws: A Compendium of the First English EditionMontesquieu's The Spirit of Laws is an enduring classic of social and political theory deserving a fresh reading every generation. The modern reader, however, is likely to find a work that ran to over a thousand pages in its two-volume first edition a bit overwhelming. Presented here, therefore, is the first English-language compendium of The Spirit of Laws, together with the first English translation of the posthumously published treatise containing the physiological theory underlying Montesquieu's theory of climate. |
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Contents
The Life and Times of Montesquieu | 3 |
The Methodology of The Spirit of Laws | 18 |
Forms of Government | 28 |
Conclusion | 82 |
PREFACE | 91 |
Of Laws Directly Derived from | 106 |
Of the Principles of the Three | 116 |
That the Laws of Education Ought to | 126 |
In What Manner the Laws of Civil Slavery | 257 |
How the Laws of Domestic Slavery Bear | 266 |
How the Laws of Political Servitude Bear | 275 |
Of Laws in Relation to the Principles | 287 |
Part Four | 299 |
Of Laws in Relation to Religion | 320 |
Of Laws in Relation to the Establishment | 339 |
Of Laws in Relation to the Order of Things | 354 |
Consequences of the Principles of Different | 152 |
Consequences of the Different Principles | 163 |
Of the Corruption of the Principles of | 170 |
Part | 181 |
Offensive Force | 189 |
Of the Laws Which Establish Political | 196 |
Of the Laws That Form Political Liberty | 215 |
Of the Relation which the Levying | 229 |
Part Three | 241 |
Of the Manner of Composing Laws | 372 |
Editors Notes to The Spirit of Laws | 379 |
An Essay on Causes Affecting | 415 |
Part | 434 |
Materials | 451 |
Appendices | 467 |
Explanatory Note Appended to the Edition | 478 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Spirit of Laws: A Compendium of the First English Edition |
| Author | Montesquieu |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1977 |
| ISBN | 0520034554, 9780520034556 |
| Length | 516 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy Philosophy / Political |
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