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...
Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Philosopher Who Condemned Civilization | Ep.4 Part 1
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Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Philosopher Who Condemned Civilization | Ep.4 Part 1
In this first episode of our Rousseau series, Timeless Thinkers explores the most unsettling voice of the Enlightenment — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the philosopher who condemned civilization itself. While others celebrated reason, science, and progress, Rousseau argued that these so-called achievements had corrupted humanity. Civilization, he claimed, replaced freedom with dependence, virtue with vanity, and authenticity with artificiality. His first major work, The Discourse on the Sciences a...
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...
