{"id":13610,"date":"2020-08-04T19:08:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T23:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/?post_type=collection&#038;p=13610"},"modified":"2020-09-25T19:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T23:13:04","slug":"montesquieu-and-the-motives-for-science","status":"publish","type":"collection","link":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/collections\/montesquieu-and-the-motives-for-science","title":{"rendered":"Montesquieu and the Motives for Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-thumbnail is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/TNA20-Schaub-w650-640x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17619\" width=\"480\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/TNA20-Schaub-w650-640x571.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/TNA20-Schaub-w650.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottbanfield.com\/\"><cite>Elliot Banfield<\/cite><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Br\u00e8de et de  Montesquieu, the eighteenth-century French political philosopher known  simply as \u201cMontesquieu,\u201d was immensely influential in the development of  the ideas behind modern liberal democracy. The American Founders refer  to his writings frequently and reverently, and every advocate of a  limited government of separated powers owes something to Montesquieu\u2019s  efforts. But Montesquieu wrote about a larger variety of subjects than  we normally associate with him. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/the-motives-that-ought-to-encourage-us-to-the-sciences\">a lecture he delivered in 1725<\/a> \u2014 translated by Diana Schaub, and appearing in <em>The New Atlantis<\/em>  for the first time in English \u2014 Montesquieu considers the motives that  ought to move free peoples to study the sciences. This  is&nbsp;accompanied&nbsp;by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/montesquieus-popular-science\">a commentary essay by Schaub<\/a>, professor of political science at Loyola College and a contributing editor to <em>The New Atlantis<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","collection_type":[4996],"topics":[5047,5003],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/13610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/collection"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection_type?post=13610"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=13610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}