Word: montesquieu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times a doctor honoris causa (Argentina has six universities). Arriving by special train with wife Evita, Peró led a motor caravan to the auditorium, through thousands of cheering descamisados. There, in a 70-minute speech, he managed to touch on Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Spinoza. As for himself, he said he was between Hegel and Marx-against both "immoral individualism" and the "insectification of the individual," in favor of what he called "justicialism...
...Dieckmann, and he had brought them home with him to St. Louis. All in all, to the tiny band of Diderot scholars it was the greatest discovery ever. It would mean a complete new look at the man Dieckmann holds was certainly "on a level with Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu." For students of the 18th Century, Dieckmann's find was beaten only by one other: the discovery of the Boswell Malahide papers (TIME, Nov. 29), which had also turned up forgotten in an ancient castle...
...French version of democracy could fail to draw on the libertarian principles of Rousseau and Montesquieu. Men known as leftists had fought for years for those principles; yet today's leftists sought to limit and modify them...