Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part One)

from The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · host Mark Linsenmayer

On The Spirit of the Laws (1748) by Charles Louis de Secondat, aka Baron de Montesquieu. What keeps a society functioning? Montesquieu, though of course not the first political philosopher, was perhaps the first to systematically explore correlations between characteristics of a government, its people, its climate, dominant industries, religion, and other factors. Some of his ideas directly influenced the American Constitution, and some of them are very very weird. Please support PEL! The post Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.

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