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...
Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan: From State of Nature to Social Contract | Ep.2 (Full Analysis & Summary)
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Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan: From State of Nature to Social Contract | Ep.2 (Full Analysis & Summary)
A century after Machiavelli redefined power, another thinker faced a different kind of chaos, civil war. In this second episode, we enter the mind of one of history’s most profound and unsettling thinkers, Thomas Hobbes, the philosopher who redefined political order in a time of chaos. We explore how Hobbes transformed fear into the foundation of order, reason into the architect of peace, and government into the necessary answer to humanity’s own instability. Written in 1651, amid the tur...
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...
