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...
State of Nature & Natural Rights in Locke’s Vision of Human Freedom | Timeless Thinkers Ep.3 Part 2
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State of Nature & Natural Rights in Locke’s Vision of Human Freedom | Timeless Thinkers Ep.3 Part 2
In Part 2 of our John Locke Series, we enter the philosophical core of the Second Treatise of Government, Locke’s vision of the State of Nature and Natural Rights. For Locke, the state of nature was not a violent anarchy like Hobbes imagined. It was a moral and rational order governed by natural law, where all individuals were born free and equal. Each person possessed inherent rights — life, liberty, and property — long before the existence of any government. This vision transformed politi...
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...
