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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发表于2025-02-05
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1776年,托马斯•潘恩出版了鼓励北美独立的小册子《常识》,他用激昂铿锵、清晰睿智的语言嘲弄了君主制的昏庸、抨击了世袭制的荒诞,并为人们描述了理想中的共和政体,在那里,人权得到了最大限度的实现。你同样可以在这个小册子里读到某党最爱念叨的依法治国和今天的...
评分 评分读完潘恩的《常识》,我先是感觉到思想的伟大,继而又感觉到一丝迷惑。 我觉得《常识》的伟大,在于它如同先知,看到了现代社会的发展趋势。他对于美国独立的构想,对于现代社会的民主发展理念,几乎预言了美国社会的发展轨迹。因此,从这个角度上来,我觉得潘恩的《常识》是十...
评分这本畅销一时的书其实是理性多于激情。虽然里面有一些华美的句子,但更多是对切身利益的恳切畅谈。我想,它用实践的胜利证明了论辩中和心理学有关的四个要点: (1)制造强烈的对比。心理学的锚定定律表明,人对某一事物的评论强烈受到之前评论(即便是随机的而且他明...
评分我们的潘恩在哪里 据传当年的北美大陆,几乎每一个成年人都读过或者听过别人谈这本不到50页的小册子,其流传之广仅次于《圣经》,在几百年后,美国的历史学家还坚信,除《汤姆叔叔的小屋》外,在美国再也没有出版物曾发生那样巨大的反响。 然而...
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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.
如果不结合历史背景整体只能说一般吧,字面上潘恩简直是迷之自信
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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。
评分如果不结合历史背景整体只能说一般吧,字面上潘恩简直是迷之自信
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。
Common Sense 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书