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...
All content for Timeless Thinkers is the property of Timeless Thinkers Studio and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
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...
John Locke’s Social Contract Theory | The Birth of Political Society | Timeless Thinkers Ep.3 Part 4
Timeless Thinkers
5 minutes
1 month ago
John Locke’s Social Contract Theory | The Birth of Political Society | Timeless Thinkers Ep.3 Part 4
In Part 4 of our John Locke Series, we explore how individual consent becomes collective power, how people, once free and equal in the state of nature, unite to form a political society through the social contract. For Locke, this contract is not a surrender to authority, as Hobbes imagined, but a mutual agreement among free individuals to create a government that protects their life, liberty, and property. The purpose of government is not domination, but preservation, and when rulers break ...
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...
