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  2. Montesquieu - Wikipedia

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    Château de la Brède, Montesquieu's birthplace. Montesquieu was born at the Château de la Brède in southwest France, 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Bordeaux. [4] His father, Jacques de Secondat (1654–1713), was a soldier with a long noble ancestry, including descent from Richard de la Pole, Yorkist claimant to the English crown.

  3. The Spirit of Law - Wikipedia

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    Montesquieu's treatise, already widely disseminated, had an enormous influence on the work of many others, most notably: Catherine the Great, who produced Nakaz (Instruction); the Founding Fathers of the United States Constitution; and Alexis de Tocqueville, who applied Montesquieu's methods to a study of American society, in Democracy in America.

  4. Rationalist humanism - Wikipedia

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    Rationalist humanism tradition includes Tocqueville and Montesquieu, and in the 19th century, Élie Halévy. [3] [4] Other strands of the Enlightenment included scientific naturalism. [2] In the mid 20th century, rational humanism represented also an alternative for those that did not embrace Sartre's existentialism. [5]

  5. Doux commerce - Wikipedia

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    Proponents of the doux commerce theory argued that the spread of trade and commerce will decrease violence, including open warfare. [6] [7] Montesquieu wrote, for example, that "wherever the ways of man are gentle, there is commerce; and wherever there is commerce, there the ways of men are gentle" [8] and "The natural effect of commerce is to lead to peace". [1]

  6. Lumières - Wikipedia

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    The social origins of the philosophers were also diverse: many were from middle-class families (Voltaire, Jefferson), others from more modest beginnings (Immanuel Kant, Franklin, Diderot) or from the nobility (Montesquieu, Condorcet). Some had had a religious education (Diderot, Louis de Jaucourt) or one in the law (Montesquieu, Jefferson).

  7. Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans ...

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    Frontispiece and title page of 1748 edition. Initially, Montesquieu only intended on writing a few pages on the topic. [1] However, the size of his topic overwhelmed him, so he chose to expand the scope of his writing from the beginnings of the Roman Republic to the decay of the late Roman Empire. [1]

  8. Elon Musk says his religion is ‘one of curiosity,’ and it’s ...

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    Elon Musk owns SpaceX, one of the most valuable private companies in the world, with a valuation of $180 billion. But what does he believe about life, the universe, and everything? The billionaire ...

  9. Persian Letters - Wikipedia

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    Pauline Kra, Religion in Montesquieu's "Lettres persanes", Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 72 (1970). Jean Starobinski, preface to Folio edition of Lettres persanes , 1973. Jean Marie Goulemot, "Questions sur la signification politique des Lettres Persanes ," Approches des Lumières , Paris: Klincksieck, 1974, pp. 213–225.