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Author : Benjamin Constant
Release : 1988-11-10
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Constant: Political Writings by : Benjamin Constant
Download or read book Constant: Political Writings written by Benjamin Constant. This book was released on 1988-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1988 book is an English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant.
Author : Benjamin Constant
Release : 1988-10-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Constant: Political Writings by : Benjamin Constant
Download or read book Constant: Political Writings written by Benjamin Constant. This book was released on 1988-10-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic definitions of modern liberal doctrine emerge from the first English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant (1767-1830), one of the most important of the French political theorists.
Author : Benjamin Constant
Release : 2020-12-08
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns by : Benjamin Constant
Download or read book The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns written by Benjamin Constant. This book was released on 2020-12-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an essay by Benjamin Constant. In this essay, Constant contrasted two views on freedom: one held by "the Ancients," particularly those in Classical Greece, and the other by members of modern societies. He investigates the dangers of attempting to impose ancient liberty in a modern context, as well as the risks associated with each type of liberty. The danger of ancient liberty was that men, preoccupied with securing their share of social power, might place too little value on individual rights and pleasures. The danger of modern liberty is that we will give up our right to participate in political power too easily, absorbed in the enjoyment of our independence and the pursuit of our particular interests." Constant believes that the two types of liberty must eventually be combined.
Author : Benjamin Constant
Release : 1988
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Book Synopsis The Political Writings of Benjamin Constant by : Benjamin Constant
Download or read book The Political Writings of Benjamin Constant written by Benjamin Constant. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Constant
Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments by : Benjamin Constant
Download or read book Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments written by Benjamin Constant. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was born in Switzerland and became one of France's leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician. His colourful life included a formative stay at the University of Edinburgh; service at the court of Brunswick, Germany; election to the French Tribunate; and initial opposition and subsequent support for Napoleon, even the drafting of a constitution for the Hundred Days. Constant wrote many books, essays, and pamphlets. His deepest conviction was that reform is hugely superior to revolution, both morally and politically. While Constant's fluid, dynamic style and lofty eloquence do not always make for easy reading, his text forms a coherent whole, and in his translation Dennis O'Keeffe has focused on retaining the 'general elegance and subtle rhetoric' of the original. Sir Isaiah Berlin called Constant 'the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy' and believed to him we owe the notion of 'negative liberty', that is, what Biancamaria Fontana describes as "the protection of individual experience and choices from external interferences and constraints." To Constant it was relatively unimportant whether liberty was ultimately grounded in religion or metaphysics -- what mattered were the practical guarantees of practical freedom -- "autonomy in all those aspects of life that could cause no harm to others or to society as a whole." This translation is based on Etienne Hofmann's critical edition of Principes de politique (1980), complete with Constant's additions to the original work.
