<p>As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)</p>

Memoire (French Edition)

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Bonnefon, Paul

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Beaumarchais; étude

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Mémoires: Introd. et Notes de Paul Bonnefon. Orné d'un Portrait Gravé sur Bois par Achille Ouvré (French Edition)

OEuvres complètes d'Estienne de la Boétie, publiées avec notice biographique, variantes, notes et in (French Edition)

Montaigne: L'homme Et L'oeuvre (French Edition)

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Mémoires de ma vie. Voyage a Bordeaux, 1669 (French Edition)

PERRAULT, CHARLES

Perrault, Claude 1613-1688

Le Discours de la servitude volontaire par Étienne de la BoétieLe Discours de la servitude volontaire est le produit d’une utopie,mais d’une utopie grande et noble. À chaque page s’exhale le plus pur et le plus sincère amour de l’humanité.Rien de plus hardi, mais aussi rien de plus honnête n’a été écrit « à l’honneur de la liberté contre les tyrans », que ce petit traité qu’on prendrait, selon la belle expression de Villemain, « pour un manuscrit antique trouvé dans les ruines de Rome, sous la statue brisée du plus jeune des Gracques ».Tout y est antique, en effet : la forme, l’inspiration, les pensées. La forme est de cette beauté sobre, aux lignes nettes et pures qui caractérisent l’art de la Grèce. Au dire de Montaigne, c’est une lecture de Plutarque qui inspira cette amplification oratoire, et les sentiments en sont si austères que nul penseur ancien ne les désavouerait.La passion qui y domine est cet amour ardent de la liberté qui fait parfois les Harmodius et les Thraséas, mais tempéré, ici, par le respect de la justice et on y retrouve ce culte de la fraternité qui honorait la morale stoïcienne.Suivant La Boétie, la nature ne nous a faits inégaux « qu’afin de nous entreconnoistre tous pour compaignons, ou plustost pour frères ». Sublime illusion, dont sont capables seules les âmes délicates, et qui confond dans un même élan l’égalité et la charité !

Discours de la servitude volontaire (French Edition)

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DE LA BOÉTIE, ÉTIENNE

Politics & Government

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Politics of Obedience: The discourse of voluntary servitude

<p>In 1550, at the young age of eighteen, Étienne de la Boétie wrote his reply to Machiavelli's The Prince. In it he sought to answer the question of why people submit to the tyranny of governments. This classic work of political reflection, Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, laid the ground work for the concept of civil disobedience, and as such, has exerted an important influence on the traditions of dissidence from Thoreau and Ralph Emerson, to Tolstoy, to Gandhi. In his Discourse de La Boétie delves deeply into the nature of tyranny and into the nature of State rule. He cuts to the heart of what is, or rather should be, the central problem of political philosophy: the mystery of civil obedience. Why do people, in all times and places, obey the commands of government, which always constitutes a small minority of the society? Apart from the complete text of Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, this edition of The Politics of Obedience, includes, as well, a comprehensive 100-page biography, by Paul Bonnefon, on the life and times of de La Boétie. It was the only one ever written, and it has never before been published in English (previously published as the Introduction to Oeuvres Complètes Étienne de La Boétie, 1892, and long out of print). It is ironic that the works of Machiavelli, advisor to rulers, should enjoy widespread currency, while the libertarian La Boétie is muted. Hopefully, publication of his 1550 Discourse, with its superb introduction by Murray Rothbard, will right the imbalance. --Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority La Boétie's discourse is a highly significant essay on the ultimate source of political power, the origins of dictatorship, and the means by which people can prevent political enslavement and liberate themselves. --Gene Sharp, Politics of Nonviolent Action </p>

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