
Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Nature of Nature
He's making observations about human psychology and sociology. He doesn't say that there are these principles that then get laid upon the world as he builds it up from the beginning of things. God is prominently absent from being a motive force in any of this at all. His natural law and positive law is the type of thing that we have in a given political order or society country.
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