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Vico and Montesquieu: Limits of Pluralist Imagination

Pages 55-78 | Published online: 01 Jul 2013

References

  • Philosophy and Pluralism For a critical discussion of moral monism, see my ‘Moral Philosophy and Its Anti-pluralist Bias’ in ed. David Archard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Although moral and cultural pluralism are closely related and often overlap, they are distinct. The former refers to the view that the good life can be lived in several equally legitimate ways, the latter to the view that human life and its constituent activities and relationships can be given different and equally plausible meaning and significance.
  • The New Science of Giambattista Vico For a useful summary, see the introduction in ed. and trans. Goddard Bergin and Marx Harold Fisch (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970) (hereafter cited as NS). See also Mark Lilla, G. B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993); and Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity (London: Fontana Press, 1990) and Against the Current (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
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  • NS 53
  • NS 5
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  • Lilla . G. B. Vico 210
  • NS 372
  • NS 380 f.
  • 1989 . Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism Chicago : Chicago University Press . For good discussions of Montesquieu, see Thomas Pangle, Melvin Richter, The Political Theory of Montesquieu (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), and Judith N. Shklar, Montesquieu (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).
  • The Spirit of the Laws “We do nothing so well as when we…follow the bent of our national genius,” WC.k. xix, chap. 5 in the tr. Thomas Nugent (New York: Hafner Publishing Company, 1949). See also Pangle, Montesquieu's Philosophy, 225 f.
  • Montesquieu . “ 4 ” . In The Spirit of the Laws Bk. xvi, chap.
  • Montesquieu . “ 4 ” . In The Spirit of the Laws Bk. xix, chap.
  • Montesquieu . “ 14 ” . In The Spirit of the Laws Bk. xix, chap.
  • Montesquieu . “ 7 ” . In The Spirit of the Laws Bk. xv, chap.
  • The Spirit of the Laws Montesquieu, preface to
  • Montesquieu . “ 1 ” . In The Spirit of the Laws Bk. 1, chap.
  • Montesquieu . “ 2 ” . In The Spirit of the Laws Bk. 1, chap.
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  • Montesquieu . “ 1 ” . In The Spirit of the Laws Bk. xv, chap., 5, 11 and 12.
  • Montesquieu . “ 2 ” . In The Spirit of the Laws Bk. xvi, chap. to 7 and 13.
  • Montesquieu . “ 11 ” . In The Spirit of the Laws Bk. xxiv, chap., 14 and 19.
  • Montesquieu . The Spirit of the Laws Bks. xx and xxi.
  • Montesquieu's Philosophy In Pangle, 207 ff.
  • The Political Theory of Montesquieu 334 See Richter
  • Richter . The Political Theory of Montesquieu 35, thinks that Persian Letters is “remarkably fresh and detached” and relativizes “almost every aspect of French life.” He offers little supporting evidence for this view.
  • Shklar . Montesquieu 46

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