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- This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man, in such manner as if every man should say to every man: I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition; that thou give up, thy right to him, and authorise all his actions in like manner. This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a Commonwealth; in Latin, Civitas
- What power does each person have of nature according to locke
- if a single person or small group holds the power
- more focused on material world, moved towards materialism, NOT materialist
- Guidance of Politics (Arrete) (Aristotle)
- casas was a precursor to Rousseau's phrase
- las casas felt the spanish empire would unite the world into one state, he was
- world and universe have order, not chaos (plato)
- Spoke in universals (Aristotle)What kind of thinker?
- an ethical system that determines the level of goodness or evil from the effect or result of an act
- recognizes imperfection of humans even with limited virtues, still must contribute
- key thinker of natural law theory using greek philosophy and christianity
- Plato's chosen mode of ethics, based on reason
- basis of traditional political theory
- plato says political theory is the same as
- Major philosopher that started political theory
- · "Increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world"
- Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.
- It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity
- It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men; that they would set less value on the work and more upon the workman; that they would never forget that a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak; and that no form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens