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Simone de Beauvoir on Freedom, Economic Injustice, and Resistance
Simone de Beauvoir (French, 1908-1986) is a philosopher of freedom. She thinks that man is free and ought to be free. When he acts, his actions must be unconstrained by any abstract moral rule – as Kant suggests – because abstract rules do not help in particular situations. Every particular situation has its own set…
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Montesquieu on the Nature and Principle of Political Regime
Like classical and medieval political philosophers and thinkers, Charles de Montesquieu does provide an account of political regime. Unlike them, he does not classify regimes based on the intentions or passions of the rulers. Put another way, Montesquieu has no theory of virtue versus vice. According to the ‘ancients’ or classical tradition, a good regime…
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