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Joseph de Maistre

Born

in Chambéry, France

April 01, 1753

Died

February 26, 1821

Genre

Philosophy, Nonfiction, History

Influences

Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Plutarch, Giambattista Vico, Augustine of ...more

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A Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher. He was the most influential spokesmen for hierarchical political systems in the period immediately following the French Revolution of 1789. Despite his close personal and intellectual ties to France, Maistre remained throughout his life a loyal subject of the King of Sardinia, whom he served as member of the Savoy Senate (1787–1792), ambassador to Russia (1803–1817), and minister of state to the court in Turin (1817–1821).
Maistre argued for the restoration of hereditary monarchy, which he regarded as a divinely sanctioned institution, and for the indirect authority of the Pope over temporal matters. According to Maistre, only governments founded upon a Christian constitution, implicit in ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 1,148 ratings · 140 reviews · 152 distinct works • Similar authors

	Considerations on France by Joseph de Maistre, Isaiah Berlin (Introduction), Richard A. Lebrun (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 1796 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence by Joseph de Maistre, Richard A. Lebrun (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1821 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Executioner 3.63 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1821 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment 4.25 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1814 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and other Human Institutions 4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1814 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Against Rousseau: On the State of Nature and On the Sovereignty of the People 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters on the Spanish Inquisition 4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1977 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Works of Joseph de Maistre by Joseph de Maistre, Robert Nisbet (Foreword), Jack Lively (Translator) 4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1971 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tratado sobre los sacrificios (Clásicos Sexto Piso) 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1810 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oeuvres by Joseph de Maistre, Pierre Glaudes 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2009 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Every country has the government it deserves.”
― Joseph de Maistre

tags: philosophy, politics

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“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. You feel it already in the vegetable kingdom: from the great catalpa to the humblest herb, how many plants die and how many are killed; but, from the moment you enter the animal kingdom, this law is suddenly in the most dreadful evidence. A Power, a violence, at once hidden and palpable. . . has in each species appointed a certain number of animals to devour the others. . . And who [in this general carnage] exterminates him who will exterminate all others? Himself. It is man who is charged with the slaughter of man. . . The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death.”
― Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

tags: death, politics

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“Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”
― Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

tags: altar, civilization, divine, order, religion, sacrifice

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