Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Laws of Nature
There are natural laws in the moral sense, right? That positive laws can or cannot conform to. A man in the state of nature would have the faculty of knowing, rather than knowledge. Such men would not seek to attack one another and peace would be the first natural law. The idea of empire and domination is so complex and depends on so many other ideas that it would not be the one they would have first.
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