Gabriel Bonnot de Mably

Gabriel Bonnot de Mably ( born March 14, 1709 Grenoble, † April 2, 1785 in Paris) was a French politician and philosopher in the Enlightenment.

Life

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac was a brother of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably. Her parents were Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1666-1727) and Madame de la Coste (* 1675). Gabriel Bonnot de Mably was formed with the Jesuits in Lyon, was canon at the church at Isle Barbe and secretary to his uncle, Cardinal and Minister Tencin, who employed him repeatedly to diplomatic missions.

In 1740 he presented Jean- Jacques Rousseau as a tutor for his children.

But after 1746 he devoted most of his time in Paris, the historical studies. The writings of this philosopher of the Enlightenment are characterized by the pursuit of building the policy on moral basis and return the state back to the simple, original state of civil society as in the time of Lycurgus of Athens in the late period of the Athenian democracy, while the ratios Ancien Régime of his time condemned. He died on April 23, 1785 in Paris.

Works

  • Parallèle des Romains et des Français par rapport au gouvernement (Paris 1740, 2 vols ), fashioned in
  • Observations sur les Romains ( Geneva 1751 ) and
  • Observations sur l' histoire de la France ( Genf. 1765, 2 vols ), edited by Guizot new and with a Essai sur l' histoire de la France ( Paris, 1823-24, 4 vols ) increased; also:
  • Le droit public de l'Europe (Amsterdam 1748, 3 vols );
  • Entretien de Phocion sur le rapport de la morale avec la politique (1763 );
  • De l' étude de l' histoire ( 1778), new edition: Paris: Fayard, 1988 - ISBN 9782213018386
  • Manière d' ecrire l' histoire ( 1782 ) and Others

Werkausgabe

  • Collection complète de l' abbé Mably of the oeuvres, 15 vols. édition Paris ( Desbrières ), ( 1794/1795 ) - Reprint: Aalen. Scientia, 1977
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