
Kings All The Way Down
New Polity
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His Power Is Not Coercion, Right?
Aristotle says there's these lines that are really important, but often just get passed over. And he says the city has coercive power to coerce those who paternal authority is not enough. But when you when the polity enforces its law, coercively against criminals, yeah. It's their law,. But it's not the criminals law. The criminal does not obey it. Voluntarily as an in a human manner. He does not take it into his own reasoning as if it were native to him. Right. So this is where we see a problem. This is that’s where your head, I think, right? And he's actually not a king. To
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