[DOWNLOAD] "Commentary on Filangieriās Work" by Benjamin Constant # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

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- Title: Commentary on Filangieriās Work
- Author : Benjamin Constant
- Release Date : January 24, 2015
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,World Affairs,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2125 KB
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Commentary on Filangieriās Work addresses the principal political and social questions that Benjamin Constant, one of the most important liberal thinkers of the nineteenth century, ever discussed. This translation will help give the work its deserved importance in political theory.
Commentary is founded on the view that government should maintain a strictly limited role in society; āThe functions of government are purely negative. It should repress disorder, eliminate obstacles, in a word, prevent evil from arising. Thereafter one can leave it to individuals to find the good.ā
Benjamin Constant (1767ā1830), born in Switzerland, became one of Franceās leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician.
Alan S. Kahan is Professor of British Civilization at the UniversitƩ de Versailles/St. Quentin-en-Yvelines in France.