Thomas pangle montesquieu biography
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Thomas L. Pangle, The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws Joshua Bandoch
Thomas L. Pangle, The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press (2010, 193 pages).
Thomas Pangle’s Montesquieu’s Philosophy of Liberalism, published nearly forty years ago, was a powerful, important contribution to scholarship on Montesquieu’s Of the Spirit of the Laws.
Thomas pangle montesquieu biography
In it, Pangle argued that Montesquieu was, ultimately, an advocate of the liberal, commercial republicanism which he saw in England. However, this work had a self-acknowledged flaw : Pangle “explicated Montesquieu’s political theory, but did so without plumbing theological argumentation” (p.
10). To address this flaw, Pangle has written The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws – a “sequel and supplement to” his first work – in which he seeks