Montesquieu, ledor de Hobbes

La presence de la perse dans Ies oeuvres des philosophes du XVIII siecle (Montesquieu Voltaire ,et Ies Encyclopedistes ) a travers du recit de voyage de Jean Chardin'

Hobbes' Calculus of Words

of a paper for the Third International Conference on Computational Linguistics to be held in Sanga Sgby I 4 September 1969 .

Montesquieu on Commerce, Conquest, War, and Peace

n the history of liberalism, Montesquieu, who died two hundred and fifty years ago, is an iconic figure. Montesquieu is cited as the source of the idea of checks and balances, or separation of powers, and thus as an intellectual inspiration of the American founding. Among liberal internationalists, Montesquieu is known above all for the notion that international trade leads to peace among natio...

Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development

Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development This paper studies the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions in form of a social contract that ensures a state of law and the absence of societal conflict are not assumed exogenously under certain political system...

Hobbes and the Internal Point of View

With the introduction, by John Austin, of the command theory of law,1 a certain distinction among theories of law entered the jurisprudential landscape: the distinction between theories that seek to characterize obedience to law in terms of external motivations, such as sanctions for noncompliance, and those that characterize obedience to law in terms of internal motivations, such as a moral co...