法の精神 (I)
- 言語:
- 英語
- 翻訳:
- Thomas Nugent
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- 完全な作品
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- 著者自身による
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この作品を引用
- APAモンテスキュー. (n.d.). The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1 [法の精神 (I)] (Thomas Nugent, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/montesquieu/the-spirit-of-laws-volume-1
- MLAモンテスキュー. The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1 [法の精神 (I)]. Translated by Thomas Nugent. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/montesquieu/the-spirit-of-laws-volume-1.
- Chicagoモンテスキュー. The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1 [法の精神 (I)]. Translated by Thomas Nugent. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/montesquieu/the-spirit-of-laws-volume-1.
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何についての本か
なぜ民族ごとに異なる法をもつのかを探り、いかに権力を分けて、どの部分も濫用しうるほどの力をもたないようにするかを説く。
背景と歴史
モンテスキューは二十年近くをこの書に費やし、1748年にジュネーヴで匿名出版した。フランスの検閲が及ばぬ地である。ここで示された立法・行政・司法の三権分立は、そのままアメリカ合衆国憲法に入った。ローマは1751年に本書を禁書目録に載せた。
これは編集上の背景であり、引用できる典拠ではありません。作品本文の一節とは異なり、これらの記述はコーパスで検証できません。
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.…