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Montesquieu: (born Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu; 1689 - 1755) was a French political philosopher and jurist. His two most important works are Persian Letters (1721) and The Spirit of the Laws (1748). He is counted among the thinkers of the Enlightenment. See also Enlightenment.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Otfried Höffe on Montesquieu - Dictionary of Arguments

Höffe I 260
Montesquieu/Höffe: Two generations after Locke's treatises on government, a French Enlightenment philosopher and brilliant exponent of morality produced the basic work of a new kind of political thought: the spirit of the law (De l'Esprit des lois, 1748).
Sociology: The interest of state theory in the justification of political rule and with it the figure of legitimation of the social contract loses their significance in favour of political sociology and comparative legal anthropology (Ethnology of Law).
MontesquieuVsAbsolutism: Montesquieu certainly does not deny his own political views, his preference for a liberal order and his rejection of any despotic absolutism.
>Absolutism.
MontesquieuVsEurocentrism: Against a European hubris, a Eurocentrism, [Montesquieu] portrays the members of a non-European culture, the Persians, as tolerant and cosmopolitan, capable, where necessary, of criticising themselves and others. While they particularly appreciate Europe's freer position of women, they criticize European customs, the many civil wars, including the Inquisition and the Papacy(1).

1. Montesquieu, Persian Letters 1721, anonymous.


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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Höffe I
Otfried Höffe
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