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Caesar, Weber, and the Power of Charisma

Political Theory 101

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Is There a God to Guarantee Morality?

I think we've got kind of in the history of European great power politics. There's the original Caesar, Napoleon and Hitler. Each of those three Caesars produces a big conflict that spans the territory of Europe. And when it ends, the original problems aren't resolved. The principle of economy is still very, very unequal. It does go back to Nietzsche and Dostoevsky's phrase, if God is dead, everything is permitted.

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