Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Political Liberty
In a state, in a society where there are laws, liberty can consist in only having the power to do what one should want to do. In order for him to have this liberty, the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen and so on. So we see in this the seeds of a Kantian maxim: I don't have the liberty to lie because if everyone else had that liberty, I wouldn't actually be able to get away with that. It's self contradictory.
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