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Rousseau and the Problem of Modern Society
(It is Bastille Day – July 14, 2023 – the day that commemorates the French Revolution. On July 14, 1789, revolutionary elements stormed the Bastille, a symbol of dogmatic authority and political repression in the then Ancien Regime under King Louis XVI. This event is thought to have fully ushered in a new world,…
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Freedom and Perfectibility in the Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By Abraham Keita- Student, Yale University What is freedom, or stated more precisely, what does it mean to be free or have free will? Is freedom a natural condition of the individual? Does individual freedom find legitimacy and full expression in political or civil society, or does this society hinder it? In an attempt…
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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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