La Boétie (English)

Japanese: ラ･ボエシー（英語表記）Étienne de La Boétie

1530‐63
He was from Sarlat, a town in central France. After studying law in Orléans, he became a canon at the Supreme Court of Bordeaux in 1554, and in 1557 he became friends with Montaigne, who had taken up his post as his colleague. He was renowned for his scholarship and insight, but died of an epidemic. In 1571, Montaigne published his poetry and translations of Xenophon and Plutarch. He also wrote On Voluntary Serfdom, a work from his youth, which argues that tyrants continue to exist because the people submit of their own accord, but there is debate as to whether this is a general theory based on material obtained from ancient writers, or whether it was based on a real-life subject.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1530‐63
フランス中部の町サルラの人。オルレアンで法律を学んだのち，1554年ボルドー最高法院評定官となり，57年同僚として着任したモンテーニュと親交を結ぶ。学識と識見によって令名をうたわれたが流行病で死去。71年詩作品およびクセノフォンとプルタルコスの翻訳がモンテーニュの手で出版される。また《自発的隷従論》は若い時期の作品で，暴君が存在しつづけるのは人民たちがみずから屈従する態度をとるためとするが，これが古代作家から得た材料による一般論か現実の対象を念頭においたものかは論がわかれる。

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