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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本书写与1776年,独立宣言发表的那年,与独立宣言一起,成为北美人民反抗英国殖民统治的号角与檄文。 本书目的就是割断当时北美人对英国以及英国式政体的迷信、畏惧,以及幻想和依恋,劝说美国人用自己的力量创造一个崭新的共和国。就像劝慰一个18岁的青年,放弃对家庭和父母...
评分有时他会说出一串精彩的脏话。但更多的时候他让我们发现身陷笑柄。 “专制政体有着如下好处,那就是它们来得十分简单,如果人们受苦受难,他们终会知道他们的灾难时从谁的头脑中产生出来的,也会知道补救的办法,没有形形色色的原因和救苦救难的方法使他们手足无措。' ...
评分因为对美国一直并非太了解,所以不曾对其文化精神方面妄加评论… 毕竟不了解就没有评论权… 我是抱着“看看你们每天耀武扬威到底是以什么为根据的”的态度去看的… 然后发现我这种态度就玷污了这本书… 这本书我个人觉得纯粹是社会学上的…它本身不涉及任何体制之间的孰优孰劣...
评分火,黑暗因它而获得光明和温暖,但是火却总是在光明和温暖中化为一堆灰烬,有时候这堆灰烬还会被风吹散得没有踪迹。 这几天,终于从出版社朝九晚五的日子中结束了,回到了我的随心所欲中,而把自己幸福地扔到了那部厚重的美国新闻史中——这是一本我在书店驻足犹豫多次的书籍...
评分潘恩的思想无疑是先进的,可<独立宣言>竟然没他什么份儿,开国元勋中也没他的名字。他一生都在辩论,和所有的当权者辩论,我不知道这样说有没有错。 或者说他是一个改革者,要改革所有的旧势力,包括他的创新与发明就是这样。 在创新思想方面,他无疑是一位天才...
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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.
开头的两章真心字字珠玑,第三章 稍微读不动了些,但是最后的reflexion又有感觉了。马克之,有空可以一读再读,神一样的逻辑,绝对慷慨的气势,册子虽小,所藏甚大
评分首先是感叹佩恩能在君主制的时代,就能提出具体的民主的实践方式;再是觉得,自己有时就像佩恩笔下的advocates of "reconciliation"一样——并没有当事人的经历,也不了解当事人的痛苦,就用自己的一套“二者皆可”论说服别人。可是虽然佩恩对于这种人的批判非常尖锐,我仍然相信,若能理解别人的感情,而后仍然保持着皆可论,不偏激,定然是大智慧。
评分今天确实很多东西成了常识,放到当时的时代下,这部作品却是意义非凡的。
评分Paine critiques monarchy, especially the evil of hereditary succession. His advocacy for a democratic government is a direct response to the endless suppression and manipulation of the British empire. America desires independence and strives for independence. The tract can be very inspiring and impassioned in that historical period.
评分小小的一本读得却异常的慢,感觉并没有全部理解……以后有机会再读一遍好了……
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