El espíritu de las leyes (I)
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Traducción:
- Thomas Nugent
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~190.000 palabras · 919 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAMontesquieu. (n.d.). The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1 [El espíritu de las leyes (I)] (Thomas Nugent, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/montesquieu/the-spirit-of-laws-volume-1
- MLAMontesquieu. The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1 [El espíritu de las leyes (I)]. Translated by Thomas Nugent. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/montesquieu/the-spirit-of-laws-volume-1.
- ChicagoMontesquieu. The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1 [El espíritu de las leyes (I)]. Translated by Thomas Nugent. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/montesquieu/the-spirit-of-laws-volume-1.
Referencia de la edición que reproduce SigPhi: SigPhi es su reproducción digital, no el editor. El año de la edición no consta en los metadatos (por eso «n.d.») y el traductor solo aparece cuando consta.
De qué trata
Un estudio de por qué cada pueblo tiene las leyes que tiene, y de cómo repartir el poder para que ninguna parte tenga bastante para abusar.
Contexto e historia
Montesquieu le dedicó cerca de veinte años y lo publicó anónimamente en Ginebra en 1748, fuera del alcance de la censura francesa. La división entre poder legislativo, ejecutivo y judicial que propone pasó directamente a la Constitución de los Estados Unidos. Roma lo puso en el Índice en 1751.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
I have first of all considered mankind, and the result of my thoughts has been, that amidst such an infinite diversity of laws and manners, they were not solely conducted by the caprice of fancy. I have laid down the first principles, and have found that the particular cases follow naturally from them; that the histories of all nations are only consequences of them; and that every particular law is connected with another law, or depends on some other of a more general extent. When I have been obliged to look back into antiquity I have endeavored to assume the spirit of the ancients, lest I should consider those things as alike which are really different, and lest I should miss the difference of those which appear to be alike. I have not drawn my principles from my prejudices, but from the nature of things. xxxii MONTESQUIEU Here a great many truths will not appear till we have seen the chain which connects them with others. The more we enter into particulars, the more we shall perceive the certainty of the principles on which they are founded. I have not even given all these particulars, for who could mention them all without a most insupportable fatigue? The reader will not here meet with any of those bold flights which seem to characterize the works of the present age. When things are examined with never so small a degree of extent, the sallies of imagination must vanish; these generally arise from the mind's collecting all its powers to view only one side of the subject, while it leaves the other unobserved. I write not to censure anything established in any country whatsoever.…