Rights of Man
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 1906
Category : France
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Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 1906
Category : France
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Author : Caroline Warman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1783742038
Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance. Each text resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. Tolerance was first published by the Société française d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in January 2015 as an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values. With the support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by over 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University.
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9780947608057
Author : Karen Pagani
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271070455
The French studies scholar Patrick Coleman made the important observation that over the course of the eighteenth century, the social meanings of anger became increasingly democratized. The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is an outstanding example of this change. In Man or Citizen, Karen Pagani expands, in original and fascinating ways, the study of anger in Rousseau’s autobiographical, literary, and philosophical works. Pagani is especially interested in how and to what degree anger—and various reconciliatory responses to anger, such as forgiveness—functions as a defining aspect of one’s identity, both as a private individual and as a public citizen. Rousseau himself was, as Pagani puts it, “unabashed” in his own anger and indignation—toward society on one hand (corrupter of our naturally good and authentic selves) and, on the other, toward certain individuals who had somehow wronged him (his famous philosophical disputes with Voltaire and Diderot, for example). In Rousseau’s work, Pagani finds that the extent to which an individual processes, expresses, and eventually resolves or satisfies anger is very much of moral and political concern. She argues that for Rousseau, anger is not only inevitable but also indispensable, and that the incapacity to experience it renders one amoral, while the ability to experience it is a key element of good citizenship.
Author : Simon Schama
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 1990-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0394221451
Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology -- a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations.
Author : Paul Harold Beik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1349005266
Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Citizenship in a Republic is the title of a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States, at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, on April 23, 1910. One notable passage from the speech is referred to as "The Man in the Arena": It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
Author : Olympe de Gouges
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Women's rights
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Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Authority
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Author : Stephanie DeGooyer
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1784787523
Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on-there must first be such a thing as "the right to have rights". The concept received little attention at the time, but in our age of mass deportations, Muslim bans, refugee crises, and extra-state war, the phrase has become the centre of a crucial and lively debate. Here five leading thinkers from varied disciplines-including history, law, politics, and literary studies-discuss the critical basis of rights and the meaning of radical democratic politics today.