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1 Online-Ressource (xliii, 145 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781316036372
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in the history and theory of politics
Uniform Title:
Ideen zu einem Versuch die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen
Content:
This text is important both as one of the most interesting contributions to the liberalism of the German Enlightenment, and as the most significant source for the ideas which John Stuart Mill popularized in his essay On Liberty. Humboldt's concern is to define the criteria by which the permissible limits of the state's activities may be determined. His basic principle, like that of Mill, is that the only justification for government interference is the prevention of harm to others. He discusses in detail the role and limits of the state's responsibility for the welfare, security and morals of its citizens. Humboldt's special achievement in this work is to enlarge our sense of what a liberal political theory might be by his particularly sensitive grasp of the complexity of our attitudes to and our need of other people. Dr Burrow has based his translation on Coulthard's version of 1854. In an important introduction, he provides a most perceptive as well as scholarly guide to Humboldt's political thought
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521076562
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521103428
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767 - 1835 The limits of state action Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1969 ISBN 9780521076562
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521103428
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316036372
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Author information:
Humboldt, Wilhelm von 1767-1835
Author information:
Burrow, J. W. 1935-2009
