Frederick the Great's Philosophical Writings (eBook)

Frederick II (Autor)

Avi Lifschitz (Herausgeber)

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2020
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18936-9 (ISBN)

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The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the GreatFrederick II of Prussia (1712-1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics, satires, and more, while maintaining extensive correspondence with prominent intellectuals, Voltaire among them. This edition of selected writings, the first to make a wide range of Frederick's most important ideas available to a modern English readership, moves beyond traditional attempts to see his work only in light of his political aims. In these pages, we can finally appreciate Frederick's influential contributions to the European Enlightenment-and his unusual role as a monarch who was also a published author.In addition to Frederick's major opus, the Anti-Machiavel, the works presented here include essays, prefaces, reviews, and dialogues. The subjects discussed run the gamut from ethics to religion to political theory. Accompanied by critical annotations, the texts show that we can understand Frederick's views of kingship and the state only if we engage with a broad spectrum of his thought, including his attitudes toward morality and self-love. By contextualizing his arguments and impact on Enlightenment beliefs, this volume considers how we can reconcile Frederick's innovative public musings with his absolutist rule. Avi Lifschitz provides a robust and detailed introduction that discusses Frederick's life and work against the backdrop of eighteenth-century history and politics.With its unparalleled scope and cross-disciplinary appeal, Frederick the Great's Philosophical Writings firmly establishes one monarch's multifaceted relevance for generations of readers and scholars to come.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2020
• Übersetzer: Angela Scholar
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: amour-propre • Anti-Machiavel • aristocracy • assassination • Bayle's Dictionary • Bernhard Taureck • Boredom • Capital punishment • Catechism • Cesare Borgia • Christian Wolff • Copyright • Credulity • Criticism • despotism • dialogue between Madame de Pompadour and the Virgin Mary • Didius Julianus • diocletian • Early Modern History • Early Modern Literature • Early modern philosophy • ecclesiastical history • edict • Edition (book) • Education • eighteenth-century Europe • Eloquence • enlightened absolutism • enlightened despotism • enlightenment monarch • Epistemology • Epistle XVIII • Epistle XX • Epithet • Essay on Prejudices • Essay on self-love • Essay on the forms of government and the duties of sovereigns • ethics • fanaticism • First principle • flattery • Fleury • Forms of Government • Frederick the Great on the Art of War • freedom of thought • French Enlightenment • German History • Germans • Good and evil • good faith • Governance • Government • hatred • History of My Age • History of Philosophy • Holy Roman Emperor • honour • In Death • indulgence • innocence of errors of the mind • Institution • Intellectual history • Jansenist • Jay Luvaas • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Kingship • Lecture • leibniz • Letter on Education • Louis XII of France • Louis XIV of France • Lucretius • Ludovico Sforza • Majesty • Maximinus Thrax • mercenary • Monarchy • Monsieur • Morality • Multitude • New Laws • Niccolò Machiavelli • Nobility • obstacle • of education • on the vain terrors of death • Panegyric • parlement • parricide • Paul Sonino • Persecution • Philosopher • Philosophy • Poetry • political agency • political theory • Political thought • Politician • Politics • Pontiff • pope alexander vi • Praetorian Guard • Prejudice • Princeton University Press • Probability • prussia • Pyrrhonism • Queen of Heaven • Quentin Skinner • reason • reasons for establishing laws or repealing laws • Religion • Religious War • Republic • ridicule • Roman law • Ruler • Satire • SCHOLASTICISM • Sedition • Self-Interest • self-love • service to the state • skepticism • Slavery • Social Contract • Sovereignty • State Within A State • stupidity • Superiority (short story) • System of Nature • Tax • the fears of another life • Theft • Theodor Schieder • Theology • The Philosopher • Tim Blanning • to my soul • Torture • Trajan • treatise • Treaty • Valentinian (play) • Vassal • Voltaire • warfare • Wealth • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18936-6 / 0691189366
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18936-9 / 9780691189369