From diagnosis to design: understanding power's eternal problem. In this second part of our Montesquieu series, we explore the fundamental challenge that every government in history has faced, and most have failed to solve. Montesquieu observed that power, by its very nature, seeks to expand. It corrupts not because people are evil, but because authority naturally attempts to extend its reach as far as it will go. This was Montesquieu's revolutionary insight: "It is an eternal experience tha...
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From diagnosis to design: understanding power's eternal problem. In this second part of our Montesquieu series, we explore the fundamental challenge that every government in history has faced, and most have failed to solve. Montesquieu observed that power, by its very nature, seeks to expand. It corrupts not because people are evil, but because authority naturally attempts to extend its reach as far as it will go. This was Montesquieu's revolutionary insight: "It is an eternal experience tha...
Inalienable & Indivisible Sovereignty: Rousseau’s Defense of the People’s Power Ep.4 Part 3
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Inalienable & Indivisible Sovereignty: Rousseau’s Defense of the People’s Power Ep.4 Part 3
In this third part of The Social Contract, Rousseau introduces one of the most revolutionary and uncompromising ideas in all of political philosophy: sovereignty is inalienable and indivisible. Unlike Hobbes, who gave sovereignty to the ruler, or Locke, who allowed representation through parliament, Rousseau insists: The people cannot give away their power, not to kings, not to assemblies, not even to representatives. Sovereignty belongs to the people as a whole, and it can only be exercise...
Timeless Thinkers
From diagnosis to design: understanding power's eternal problem. In this second part of our Montesquieu series, we explore the fundamental challenge that every government in history has faced, and most have failed to solve. Montesquieu observed that power, by its very nature, seeks to expand. It corrupts not because people are evil, but because authority naturally attempts to extend its reach as far as it will go. This was Montesquieu's revolutionary insight: "It is an eternal experience tha...
