Discours De La Servitude Volontaire Ou Le Contre'un

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De La Servitude Volontaire Ou Le Contr'Un (1836) (French Edition)

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De La Servitude Volontaire Ou Le Contr'Un: Discours (1879) (French Edition)

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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de La Servitude Volontaire Ou Le Contr'un (1836) (French Edition)

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)

Bonnefon, Paul

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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