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hide. " The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns " is an essay by Benjamin Constant, which is a transcript of a speech of the same name made at the Royal Athenaeum of Paris in 1819. [1] In the essay, Constant discusses two different conceptions of freedom: One held by "the Ancients", particularly by those in Classical Greece; the ...
Benjamin Constant Ancient and modern liberty I’m going to call your attention to some distinctions—still rather new ones—between two kinds of liberty: the differ-ences between the two haven’t been noticed, or at least haven’t been properly attended to, until now. One is the liberty that the ancient peoples valued so much; the other is
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The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns (1819) Benjamin Constant (author) Constant’s classic work in which he contrasts unfavorably the purely political liberties of the ancients with the far more expansive notion of liberty among the moderns. Read Now. Downloads.
The aim of the ancients was the sharing of social power among the citizens of the same fatherland: this is what they called liberty. The aim of the moderns is the enjoyment of security in private pleasures; and they call liberty the guarantees accorded by institutions to these pleasures .
May 15, 2020 · Benjamin Constant’s writing reminds us that both conceptions have value. L ast year marked the 200th anniversary of the French-Swiss political writer Benjamin Constant’s essay, “ The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns .”. Though nineteenth- and twentieth-century liberals, from John Stuart Mill and Alexis de ...
Mar 28, 2022 · Benjamin Constant was a vociferous critic of the political Rousseauianism that he saw underpinning French politics in the early nineteenth-century. Yet, his hostile reaction at the political level co-existed with a far more sympathetic attitude towards Rousseau’s critical analysis of modernity. This article reflects on that combination ...
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Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque ( French: [kɔ̃stɑ̃]; 25 October 1767 – 8 December 1830), or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion. A committed republican from 1795, he backed the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) and the following one on 18 Brumaire ...
