Republican Futures The Image of Holland in 18th-Century Swiss Reform Discourse

In Book Three of theSpirit of the LawsMontesquieu famously argued that ‘the political men of Greece who lived under popular government recognised no other force to sustain it than virtue. Those of today speak to us only of manufacturing, commerce, finance, wealth, and even luxury’.¹ Montesquieu’s se...

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Published inThe Republican Alternative p. 279
Main Author Béla Kapossy
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam University Press 27.06.2008
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Behavioral sciences
Bourgeois
Business
Business operations
Cantons
Cities
Citizenship
Civics
Commerce
Cultural anthropology
Economic policy
Economic reform
Economics
Human geography
Human societies
Metropolitan areas
Middle class
Political change
Political debate
Political geography
Political processes
Political reform
Political science
Politics
Social classes
Social sciences
Social stratification
Social structures
Sociology
Urban anthropology
Urban populations
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Summary:In Book Three of theSpirit of the LawsMontesquieu famously argued that ‘the political men of Greece who lived under popular government recognised no other force to sustain it than virtue. Those of today speak to us only of manufacturing, commerce, finance, wealth, and even luxury’.¹ Montesquieu’s sentence was repeated throughout the second half of the century as, for example, by the Abbé de Mably in hisDe l’étude de l’histoirepublished in 1775.² But, whereas Montesquieu much doubted the relevance of ancient politics for modern Europe, Mably, on the contrary, insisted that it was the wisdom of the
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