Chapter Fourteen. Montesquieu: Constitutionalism and Civic Virtue

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. The Order of the Kingdom and the Order of the Soul
6. Chapter One. Sixteenth-Century Constitutionalism 25
7. Chapter Two. The Development of Absolutist Thought 54
8. Chapter Three. Individualism and Humanism 83
9. Part II. Interest and Prudence: The State and the Sage
10. Chapter Four. Two Moralities: The Philosopher and the Patrie 119
11. Chapter Five. Public Utility Preferred to Private: Mercantilism and Raison d’Etat 151
12. Chapter Six. A Variety of Loves and the Sovereignty of Will 183
13. Chapter Seven. The Politics of Interest in the Fronde 213
14. Part III. The Zenith and Decline of Absolute Monarchy
15. Chapter Eight. Orthodox Absolutist Theory and the Métier du Roi 241
16. Chapter Nine. Authority and Community in the Two Cities 262
17. Chapter Ten. Self-Love and Society: Jansenism and the Honnête Homme 283
18. Chapter Eleven. The Growth of Opposition to Absolute Monarchy in France 312
19. Part IV. Approaches to a Synthesis
20. Chapter Thirteen. A New Science of Politics in a Republic Protected by a King 361
21. Chapter Fourteen. Montesquieu: Constitutionalism and Civic Virtue 392
22. Chapter Fifteen. Rousseau: The General Interest in the General Will 420
23. Conclusion 451
24. Bibliography 465
25. Index 489