Thomas Paine was born in Norfolk, England, on January 29, 1737. He received a basic education in history, mathematics, and science, but left school at age 13 to apprentice in his father's corsetmaking shop. In 1757, he spent time at sea aboard the privateer ship King of Prussia, and later found employment as a journeyman staymaker in London. All the while, Paine continued to study on his own, influenced by the work of two leading figures of the Enlightenment, Isaac Newton and John Locke. He began writing political pamphlets, and at the urging of Benjamin Franklin, emigrated to Philadelphia in 1774 to work as an editor for The Pennsylvania Magazine. In 1776, he published Common Sense, which called for America's political freedom from England. The pamphlet sold more than 150,000 copies in three months. Paine next published The American Crisis during the Revolutionary War, inspiring George Washington to read it to his troops at Valley Forge. By the end of the Revolution, however, Paine's influence had run its course, and he fell out of political favor. He returned to Europe, where he published his treatise Rights of Man, which led to his arrest on charges of high treason. Disillusioned with life abroad, he returned to the U.S. to find himself vilifed as an agitator and atheist. He died in obscurity in New York City in 1809.
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Common Sense 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
首先,翻译得太差了。 改天等自己英文进步的时候再看英文版的。 书中论述的政府、人与社会的关系大概是人人都能看懂的。我现在明白为什么美国人时时刻刻处处讲自由民主人权,因为他们的国家就是在这样的思考下诞生的。 相比之下,我们的国家似乎因为历史的悠久反而丧失了思考的...
评分初读《常识》,我立即被托马斯·潘恩富有感染力的语言所吸引和震撼。我不是一个专业研究政治学和历史学的人,只是一个普通的读者。如果撇去潘恩对于英美之间的利弊抗衡等相关的内容,这仍旧不失为一本宣贯常识的好书。 启发民智,扫除蒙昧,质疑成见,托马斯·潘恩之于美国历...
评分被感恩与被唾弃的托马斯·潘恩! 中国人据说(如本书的评语)很神经病地喜欢他。 外国人据说很神经质地反对他! 常识只具有历史性的小读本,它的重要是因为它讲出了懒散的人没有去再讲的话。道理人人都懂,这叫常识。但讲得明白,讲得有情有理有节有热情的,不容易。 独立与和...
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When Common Sense was published in January 1776, it sold, by some estimates, a stunning 150,000 copies in the colonies. What exactly made this pamphlet so appealing? This is a question not only about the state of mind of Paine's audience, but also about the role of public opinion and debate, the function of the press, and the shape of political culture in the colonies. This Broadview edition of Paine’s famous pamphlet attempts to reconstruct the context in which it appeared and to recapture the energy and passion of the dispute over the political future of the British colonies in North America. Included along with the text of Common Sense are some of the contemporary arguments for and against the Revolution by John Dickinson, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson; materials from the debate that followed the pamphlet's publication showing the difficulty of the choices facing the colonists; the Declaration of Independence; and the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776.
一本为当时宣传美国独立的小册子。从不同方向分析了独立的必要性。倒回那个年代确实是一本超前立意深远的小册子。但是对于现在的我来读有的地方还需要再仔细读一遍才能理解。有的词汇和句子意思没理解到。研究美国政治和历史的有必要好好读一读。
评分Storyline: 从大处着眼先讲明政权起源,继而辩驳君主制和世袭制,这当中一直以英国作为例子。接着小处着手,探讨美国现在的处境,声明一定要独立,以及如果要独立,美国现在的能力。 逻辑清晰,语言干练强势,骂起人来毫不含糊,不像小说家借故事暗讽,也不像毛姆或者奥威尔明讽,而是直接开骂,有骂醒美国人的架势,在当时的情景下非常合适了。mark 一下今年的第20本书。
评分一本为当时宣传美国独立的小册子。从不同方向分析了独立的必要性。倒回那个年代确实是一本超前立意深远的小册子。但是对于现在的我来读有的地方还需要再仔细读一遍才能理解。有的词汇和句子意思没理解到。研究美国政治和历史的有必要好好读一读。
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评分头两章形而上地用文字跳舞,之后便如篇毕业论文般晦涩啰嗦,毕竟很难与独立战争之前的殖民地民众心理或其对立面感同身受。但是一些地缘政治学、政治经济学的理论体系雏形放在那个时代已经是非常先进的了。
Common Sense 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书